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Originally Posted by Dottore
The whole concept is just too sordid to contemplate. Nasty things will happen in a completely free market place.
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Then I have to ask what you'd do if diagnosed with a year to live and put on the bottom of the waitlist.
There are already millions of idiots out there who spend their meager wages or even welfare on lottery tickets. When I worked at a convenient store in college, I saw folks buy $.05 single pieces of gum or pretzels with $1 food stamps so they could get change back and, after a few purchases, have enough for a pack of smokes.
The gov't. already tries to prevent all this by banning the sale of organs. That drives the folks with money overseas. It just shifts those things you mentioned to foreigners, but doesn't stop them. It'd be a lot easier to regulate in the US by allowing the sale of organs than to have this high and mighty law and waitlist, which is a death sentence for most on it.