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To: shades who wrote (68917)	8/28/2006 1:49:20 AM
From: bond_bubble	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

Shades, I think your idea is not correct because of moral hazard. You are almost saying slavery is better than letting people starve! Also, if you legalize "kidney donation", then it will become difficult to prevent the "illegal kidney stealing" - atleast this will be true in India. The minimal fear people should have is that they dont own others - i.e others have the right to walk away from anyone at any time (with mind, heart and kidneys intact). Alternatively, it is better to invest in "Organ donation education program" (in US, you can indicate this in drivers license). Since there is no "price" for organs in this "donation" - this is a better solution. Also, we can invest in technologies to make better use of these "donations" and other alternative medical technologies. This is similar to blood donations. You dont need poor Indians to donate blood do you? And blood costs $0 in US doesnt it? The real problem is that, medical innovations have stagnated in US for long. The doctors are promised million dollars salary for doing just what the book says - nobody is interested in doing anything beyond the books - else, they can be sued for billion dollar malpractise. This is causing them not to innovate and hence "organ donation" is not well advanced. Instead of spending the effort in streamlining organ donation from poor countries, US can attempt to "better" medicine in US.