> >"Also, the incentives to provide good organs in this market seems > >weak. Those with high quality organs benefit much less from this >> arrangement than in a market."
>I am at a loss as to what this means. The argument made in EARLIER posts is that people with GOOD organs have are encouraged to provide organs to the market due to monetary rewards. A person with GOOD organs gains little from reciprocal agreement, because he is less likely to need a transplant, but he WOULD be an excellent donor. JC _________________________ John-Charles Bradbury, Ph.D. Department of Economics The University of the South 735 University Ave. Sewanee, TN 37383 -1000 Phone: (931) 598-1721 Fax: (931) 598-1145 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pinczewski-Lee, Joe (LRC)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: RE: Organ shortage - a tragedy of the commons > "Among the participants in the cooperative the organs still remain a > common > pool. How do you allocate differing body parts?" Well, there are medical > criteria NOW for transplants that could be used. The need for the organ, > plus one's health, plus one's compliance with the various regimes of > pre-treatment all can advance one up or donw a transplant list, PLUS the one > vital factor, organ compatibility. Organs are NOT carburetors, they won't > just fit anyone! As an aside, my wife has had FOUR kidney transplants, so > she and I have some familiarity with this area. We > are not talking about an exchange program here. Anyone that needs an organ > transplant will NOT have healthy organs. I don't get on a kidney transplant > list becasue I don't like my current kidney function, but because I have > lost kidney function. The idea proposed is that before one can become > eligible to RECEIVE a transplanted organ, one must have acceeded to be > willing to DONATE an organ. > Though that idea has some flaws, too. It runs afoul of a > free-loader problem. If I have diabetes I might well want to become an > organ donor. I won't be able to donate, very much if anything, upon my > death, but I would be eligible to RECIEVE a lot, kidneys, livers, pancreas, > hearts, a host of things diabetes damages. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John-charles Bradbury [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:19 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Organ shortage - a tragedy of the commons > > > >Indeed the policy is essentially as efficient as pricing >organs. > > Please explain further on this point. Certainly, it is better than the > current situation, and the political objections are minimized. But I don't > think its efficiency properties rival market efficiency. > > Among the participants in the cooperative the organs still remain a common > pool. How do you allocate differing body parts? Also, the incentives to > provide good organs in this market seems weak. Those with high quality > organs benefit much less from this arrangement than in a market. > > JC >
