<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>--- On <B>Fri, 11/19/10, Micha Berger <I><micha@aishdas.org></I></B> wrote:<BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:00:46PM -0800, Harry Maryles wrote:<BR>: What are the ethics of this billionaire offering a million dollars to<BR>: anyone with a compatible kidney to donate it directly to him?...</DIV>
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<DIV class=plainMail>I don't see a moral problem, if this saves a life, poses only a small<BR>risk to the donor (most people don't end up losing function in a kidney,<BR>so one really is spare), and the kidney wouldn't have gone to someone<BR>else so that you have to ask about the relative color of blood.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Is there no ethical problem with a wealthy person having a better chance at surviving a disease because of his wealth? Shouldn't health care be blind to wealth?</DIV>
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