Bear with me here. This is a hard concept for a lot of folks to comprehend but it's really fairly simple. My opinion was influenced by an Auburn economics professor that I had years ago. David Kaserman is no longer with us but he almost died at a young age while needing an organ transplant. Later in life he wrote many papers supporting the need to create a market for selling organs in order to help more people receive the organs they desperately need. Right now, there is no incentive other than altruism to encourage people to become organ donors. Lots of folks will tell you that selling organs is a terrible idea. This seems to be the position supported by the AMA. My main problem with this is that the AMA wants people to donate their organs out of the kindness of their hearts but they damn sure aren't performing the operations at no charge. Doesn't that seem a little self serving on behalf of the AMA?
Dr. Kaserman's position on this was basically that if a market was allowed it would create economic incentive for more folks to donate and thus save more lives. I balk at the notion that selling organs is immoral. It seems just as immoral to me for a doctor to charge thousands of dollars for a procedure in which the main component was donated free of charge.
Here's a link with many quotes from the papers and research done by Dr. Kaserman.
http://www.organselling.com/expert.htm#Kaserman 
