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19 Nov 2008 02:32 pm
Kidneys For Sale
Alex Tabarrok notes that Singapore is now allowing compensation for kidneys. And Stephen Dubner summarizes a study on organ donation by a team of Harvard University researchers:
...in a nutshell: The people who receive donated organs in the U.S. nearly always have health insurance, while a significant fraction of the people who donate the organs do not. In other words: poorer people are more willing to give organs than they are likely to receive them.
...Anti-market arguments usually include the concern that poor people
would be compelled to sell organs while rich people never would. As
true as this may be — may be — it ignores what is to me the more
salient point: a market would also give many more poor people the
opportunity to get organs, not just give them.
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