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To: Brumar89 who wrote (17271)	4/16/2007 9:52:45 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218621

I note that in the "Land of the Free", people don't own their own organs and cannot sell them. They are only allowed to donate them. Doctors, nurses, hospitals, the recipient, managers, "ethics" professors and others all get cold, hard, cash financial reward from the practise, tax collectors get their bite and favoured recipients of the tax get what's left, but the donor gets nothing apart from thanks if they are still alive. People who own organs should be able to sell them for what the market will bear to whoever they like. They should be able to sell futures too, so they can enjoy the full value of their body parts while they are still alive. Body parts could be pre-sold to a body parts business which would pay now, and collect at death. If they did actuarial analysis, they could determine their likely financial returns and offer amounts of cash now. Some people would die later, with no value left in the body parts, others would die sooner, giving a great return on investment for the body parts business. No longer would the medical guilds capture the lion's share of the meat and money. The rightful owner would get the value. There would then be no shortage at all of kidneys and other body parts. Living people could sell a kidney right now, and be safe in the knowledge that if their remaining kidney packed up, they could get a replacement with the money they received from selling theirs, and keep any profits from their investment returns on that money they had received. But in the "Land of the Free", [snicker, giggle], people are anything but free. Sure, they are more free than lots of other places, but in absolute terms it's more Stockholm Syndrome than Libertarian Land. Mqurice