The Picture of Health

by Virginia Postrel  •  Apr 25, 2006 at 11:26 pm

http://www.dynamist.com/1665/the-picture-of-health

On a reporting trip last week, mostly to New York, I made a brief stop in Washington to see Sally Satel, who continues to recover rapidly from her kidney transplant. She's now busy working on a book about the screwed-up system for allocating organs--a remnant of extreme central planning that needlessly kills thousands of Americans every year. And the system isn't even as bad as some "bioethicists" wish it were.

For an outrageous example of trying to curtail organ donations in the name of "fairness," go here and here.