X-Message-Number: 9651
Date: Fri May 08 04:15:48 1998  PST
Subject: Organ transplant "shortage"
From:  (Edgar W Swank)

There has been some recent discussion here about the organ
transplant "shortage" and some ways to use cryonics to try to
alleviate it.

But the "shortage" is completely artificial, the result of
government price controls; i.e.  the government does not pemit
any payment at all to organ donors or their estates or survivors.

The "shortage" would end tomorrow if this silly law were
repealed. If extended to the 3rd world, there would soon be an
organ "glut."

For more about this, see the Cato Institute report at

  http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj17n2-3.html

There is also a link to this and other Cato reports on my website
(below).

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