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Gaming the Transplant System
Transplant program centers falsify health status in order to increase revenue and profits. Organ donors are scarce, and society has put in place a deliberative mechanism to allocate scarce life-saving organs as they become available. The system in place is a fallible system, to be sure, but it does pass certain ethical tests about access and equity (Veatch 2000). Individual physicians are not wiser than this system in deciding which patient ought to get an organ, especially if money is both institutional id and superego.
by Timothy F. Murphy
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