Should The Life Of Your Loved One Be Put At A Price?

Should the life of your loved one be put at a price?

What if organ donation was no longer existent? Hypothetically you 're being called urgently into the hospital for more tests to be done on your four-year old daughter. The doctor tells you that during her routine check up, the blood work shown that there was something seriously wrong with her heart and that these extra tests were necessary. After hours of waiting in an empty, cold, white room with different cords and machines hooked up to your daughter the doctor comes in with news that every parent dreads. At the age of four your daughter is diagnosed with congenital heart disease, a problem with her cardiovascular muscles, which lead to heart failure. As the weeks go by her condition

One side would be that dialysis costs billions of dollars more than transplantation, thus more transplants would keep more people alive and prove to be more economical. Another side to it would be that a market would prevent desperate patients from being cheated or from paying thousands of dollars more than they might have to when purchasing from the black market. In the aspect of the black market, yes, it would most likely dry out the organ sales part of the black market, but if families cannot come up with the money on their own they most likely would be lead to illegal crime, which just adds to another part of the black market. Thirdly, the black market obviously cannot be regulated, but if selling of organs becomes legal, there would be no purpose for it. Last, the time it takes to receive and organ would be significantly lower, putting patients out of their misery faster. This would only hold to be true if the families have the funds to pay for an organ, if not, the wait time could be increased

Now, I am not saying that transplants are the cheapest option, but with insurance and payment plans through hospitals it makes it at least a little easier to grasp having to come up with that amount of money. Low-income families would have a very hard time coming up with money fast when their child’s life is at stake. That’s only looking at the financial side of organ transplants benefiting the wealthy, if legalized, “organ sale would essentially be paying poorer individuals to take on permanent increased health risk in order to reduce another person’s health risk”. (Coro) This increase would basically transfer health from the poor to the rich but the rich can pay to receive the correct treatment and the poor