[justrealist]

How many decades of central planning organ-management failure would you like before concluding the experiment has failed?

[candiddevmike]

If you read the article, there isn't really any central planning. It's one of those "regulated monopolies" with only one (private) contractor. These kind of things always end poorly for the customers in my experience... Either go full free market or have it ran by the government.

[snakeyjake]

It seems to me, based on the article, that the main issue is the profit-seeking ghouls (err.. I mean... "Job Creators") exploiting the government, its limited resources, and faulty regulations-- which are slowly being fixed.

There is ample evidence (e.g. the entire rest of the industrialized world vs. the US healthcare system) that decentralized capitalist control of the donor organ system would lead to an exploitative nightmare that would make the current system look like unassailable perfection.

[candiddevmike]

Playing devils advocate, that exploitative nightmare already exists elsewhere in the world. If a consenting adult wants to sell a kidney or lung, why shouldn't they be allowed to?

[PaulHoule]

Worst in some ways, best in others.