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tt24 • today at 12:28 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> In exchange you create a monetary incentive for donors to lie about disease status and drug use.

I’ll take this solvable problem in exchange for the much more complex problem of there not being enough organs to go around


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JumpCrisscross • today at 12:34 AM

> this solvable problem in exchange for the much more complex problem of there not being enough organs to go around

Sure. Most Americans—including a commanding majority of medical experts—wouldn’t.

You’ve also shifted the goalposts. We weren’t discussing the “problem of there not being enough organs,” but that of whether such a market could be an effective anti-poverty tool.

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