Here’s a moving story of a woman donating her kidney, but if there were no prohibition against a free market in organs, she could have been compensated, and the sick man would have had what he needed much sooner. Indeed, she would not have been needed. And the price would not be crazy, because, if, say, funeral expenses could be paid, there would be far more donations from families of the recently dead. A kidney might go for about $2,000. But the major opposition group is transplant surgeons and transplant centers, which financially benefit from prohibition and limited supply, at … Continue reading A Great Lady