I'm not a huge fan of the idea of paying people for bone marrow, but "poor people won't be able to afford bone marrow" is fairly irrelevant as an argument. Poor

I'm not a huge fan of the idea of paying people for bone marrow, but "poor people won't be able to afford bone marrow" is fairly irrelevant as an argument. Poor people already cannot afford to pay for any of the costs associated with a bone marrow transplantation. You have to destroy the patient's immune system to allow the donated blood cells to grow - which means at minimum, if everything goes very well, six weeks in a high-tech isolation room, being treated with extremely expensive antivirals, antibiotics and antifungals, getting all sorts of expensive diagnostics, highly paid specialists taking care of your around the clock, etc. The last number I heard was, I believe, about 100,000 Euro if everything goes well. If things go wrong, you're looking at the ICU for ~10,000 Euro a day for a month or two, or maybe ten years worth of intense, state-of-the-art immuno-suppressive treatment...