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[N P Childs]

There are convincing arguments from health care ethicists about why paying 
for organ donation is a bad idea and morally dangerous. You don't even have 
to go economic theory to figure out that as far as health policy ideas go, 
it's completely naff.

The world isn't perfect but turning organ donation into a commercial 
transaction would go a significant way towards making it worse.

PC

At 5/19/2003,, you wrote:
>Message: 6
>Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 17:22:50 +1000
>To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>From: Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at enterprize.net.au>
>Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Why Economists are Dumb, part 268
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
>
>At 8:43 AM +0200 19/5/03, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
>
> >Always the bottom line with these folks....Not to say that
> >it's wrong to think of ways to increase organ
> >donorship--but harvisting the poor to give to the rich
> >doesn't seem like a good idea to me....
>
>I'm sure the rich would agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment that it is 
>better if the poor should freely donate their organs to the rich. Having 
>to pay for organs obviously hurts them more than it does us, but of course 
>it isn't a perfect world.

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