Is It Ever OK to Sell (or Buy) a Kidney_ _ Stanford Graduate School of Business.pdf

Advances in medicine have made successful kidney transplants more common, increasing the number of people who could be eligible for a kidney transplant.The main barrier now: a shortage of kidneys. This result in people having a low quality of life as they on are dialysis while waiting for a kidney that would improve their life dramatically.Here are issues to discuss. Would paying people for kidneys eliminate the shortage? Is there ever a point where the gains to people could overcome moral objections to selling kidneys? When a kidney is transplanted, all the medical professionals involved are getting paid, often quite well. Why then not allow the people giving up kidneys to receive compensation?