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The American healthcare system, and capitalism in general, tells us that richer people have more right to healthcare than poorer people. Even when supply is fix

• ekianjo 4y ago
  > Why should organ transplants be any different? the organ collection does not follow any capitalist principle. You can't sell your own organs even if you wanted to. So thats a pretty bad point to make.
  • iso1631 4y ago
    That's on the supply side. Many items with a limited/fixed supply (land for example) are operated under capitalist principles. So why do we not allow people to sell their own organs? Or eggs and sperm? Or rent out our womb, or sell our hair? Do we not have sovereignty over our own bodies?
  • markdown 4y ago
    > Jobs couldn't pay for an organ. Nor could he pay to cut the queue. But what someone with Jobs' resources could do, according to liver transplant surgeons and ethicists, is to use money and mobility to improve the odds either by going to an area of the country where there are more organ donors, or by signing up at multiple transplant centers. > "It's not for anybody but the rich. It's called multiple-listing, a practice some would say is unethical," said Arthur Caplan, co-chair of the United Nations Task Force on organ trafficking and chair of the department of medical ethics at University of Pennsylvania. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Economy/story?id=7902416 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Economy/story?id=7902416