selling organs for transplants

[to_the_editor]

Flesh Trade: Why not let people sell their organs?

We already pay healthy people to risk their health in safety trials of new drugs (Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt, July 9). The risks in these trials can be harder to control than the risks in well-studied transplant procedures. We also pay people to risk their health in other

Comments

[notestaff]

probably the right solution is to let people sell their organs to the government, but not to buy organs. the government then distributes organs according to need, as it does now.