Organ Donation – Let the Market Rule?

December 13, 2010

New York City is starting a pilot program in which, for the next five months, an organ-recovery team will trail ambulances responding to 911 calls, ready to leap in if the patient dies and is a viable donor. It’s a bold experiment: no other American city has even tried it. Yet officials have already warned that the program, financed with a $1.5 million grant, might not yield a single kidney. (New York Times)