“letting people sell their organs after they’re dead doesn’t seem like it would increase the supply that much”
seems very suspect. If you could sell the rights to your organs, there’s now incentive to set up a “pay people to be signed up for organ donation” business. This is also not harmful to the donor, unlike kidneys.
True. More than anything I was trying to bite off a small piece of the larger ‘organ market question’. Given your comment, a better way to do this would have been to note that even perfectly allocating all cadaveric organs would still be insufficient to get a kidney to everyone who needs one. Although one thing I don’t like about your proposal is that things could get very shady if people ‘don’t consent’ to have their organs taken after they’ve already sold their rights and have therefore ‘legally consented’. In my scheme I imagine people not getting paid unless the kidney’s already out.
Also, for added horror, a link to this may be worth including somehow.
Just for added horror, or is there a larger point? (It’s okay if there’s no larger point. I ask because I’ve seen a general ‘you don’t want to legally create new incentives around organ trade, look at China’ sort of objection that I didn’t address in the article and that I would be prepared to address if that’s where you’re going.)
Mostly horror, though it’s a decent point in favor of setting up better legal options for organ transplants, in order to reduce the incentives towards that kind of system.
True. More than anything I was trying to bite off a small piece of the larger ‘organ market question’. Given your comment, a better way to do this would have been to note that even perfectly allocating all cadaveric organs would still be insufficient to get a kidney to everyone who needs one. Although one thing I don’t like about your proposal is that things could get very shady if people ‘don’t consent’ to have their organs taken after they’ve already sold their rights and have therefore ‘legally consented’. In my scheme I imagine people not getting paid unless the kidney’s already out.
Just for added horror, or is there a larger point? (It’s okay if there’s no larger point. I ask because I’ve seen a general ‘you don’t want to legally create new incentives around organ trade, look at China’ sort of objection that I didn’t address in the article and that I would be prepared to address if that’s where you’re going.)
Mostly horror, though it’s a decent point in favor of setting up better legal options for organ transplants, in order to reduce the incentives towards that kind of system.