The selling of organs has been illegal since 1984. In a way this law has kept people with kidney failure from advancing to where they could be today such as a shorter waiting list and keeping death rates from this specific disease from rising. I believe their could be so many more opportunities and fulfilled lives with the legal buying and selling of organs. There is not nearly enough people in the country to match the growing waiting list for a kidney. Over 34,000 people were added to the waiting list back in 2010 and out of those thousands of people only half of them received one. Many die waiting on their chance. This is a sad tragedy, but it surely does not have to be this way. Those that are waiting are not dying from their kidneys
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If a well supervised legal market was created for kidneys these problems would not exist. The market would see to it that donors were payed fairly, which is around $50,000. Only the government or nonprofit organization would be allowed to purchase the kidney and they would find a recipient based off need and not wealth. The kidney would be paid for by the patients insurance or Medicare. Therefore their will be more donors who would come forth and no patient left on the waiting list. Paying for kidneys can actually save the government money. Taxpayers already cover the bill for dialysis for several patients through Medicare, and research shows that transplants same more that $100,000 per patient compared to the dialysis financial plan. There is already allowed pay for plasma, sperm and egg donation, as well as payment for surrogate mothers. In the beginning of surrogacy there were fears that the young, poor and minority women would be exploited. The women that do take part in surrogacy though, are mainly middle class and white. This suggests that they are not doing it for the check but to bring happiness to others knowing that can help in some way and take pride in what they do. Soldiers, for example, are paid to take dangerous jobs along with police officers and firefighters; all risking their lives without thinking they are being taken advantage of. Paid kidney donors should be no
If a well supervised legal market was created for kidneys these problems would not exist. The market would see to it that donors were payed fairly, which is around $50,000. Only the government or nonprofit organization would be allowed to purchase the kidney and they would find a recipient based off need and not wealth. The kidney would be paid for by the patients insurance or Medicare. Therefore their will be more donors who would come forth and no patient left on the waiting list. Paying for kidneys can actually save the government money. Taxpayers already cover the bill for dialysis for several patients through Medicare, and research shows that transplants same more that $100,000 per patient compared to the dialysis financial plan. There is already allowed pay for plasma, sperm and egg donation, as well as payment for surrogate mothers. In the beginning of surrogacy there were fears that the young, poor and minority women would be exploited. The women that do take part in surrogacy though, are mainly middle class and white. This suggests that they are not doing it for the check but to bring happiness to others knowing that can help in some way and take pride in what they do. Soldiers, for example, are paid to take dangerous jobs along with police officers and firefighters; all risking their lives without thinking they are being taken advantage of. Paid kidney donors should be no