Kidney Donors Are Heroes. Let's Reward Them.

[Clark]

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/09/16/kidney-donors-are-heroes-lets-reward-them/

Kidney Donors Are Heroes. Let's Reward Them.
Yevgeniy Feyman

There's been a lot of media focus recently on the difficult topic of organ donations – specifically, kidneys. The New York Times, last month, ran a lengthy profile of several organ traffickers and hosted a debate on the ethics of paying for kidneys. More recently, the Times' editorial board recommended some of the non-monetary solutions proposed by transplant surgeons and bioethicists, concluding that "[monetary benefits raise] the troubling issue of inducing people — most likely the poor — to sell their kidneys, which violates federal law."

Is this really such a "troubling" issue? Will allowing markets in human organs lead the rich to take advantage of the poor?

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