Reply To: Kidney Transplants

Pashuteh, the guy did profit alot but who else is willing to do what he does. People make a ton of profit on many ventures. But more importantly, I am looking at this from the perspective of the donee.

“Third” — The person giving the kidney for money presumably was not giving up his kidney otherwise. So no one is getting skipped in line. The line actually just got one person shorter.

“Fourth” — If we strictly regulated it and that the donor pay had to be fully disclosed and that “stolen” kidneys are not allowed due to some procedural protections for full disclosure then we may have a better, safer system.