Should organs be legal to sell around the world? Sally Satel, a practicing psychiatrist and kidney receiver, believes so. Satel states that there is a global organ shortage, and that has to do with kidney selling being illegal. In order to make organ selling legal, one would have to price a kidney at $50,000, and implement rigorous health screening. However, what Satel argues in “Why We Need a Market for Human Organs,” reprinted from The Wall Street Journal, is a high risk, high reward deal task in that if everything goes according to plan, everyone is has a new kidney (in theory). On the other hand, if one thing goes bad, then millions can be without a kidney, or worse die (again, all in theory). According to Satel, she claims that Gavin
