One Iranian Policy We Should Welcome. And Copy.
Andrew Sullivan is soliciting examples of what one might term The Iran Behind the Headlines. Here's one I blogged about last year. As Alex Tabarrok put it at the time:
Only one country in the world has eliminated the shortage of transplant kidneys. Only one country in the world has legalized financial payments to kidney donors. That country is Iran.
In an important report,nephrologist Benjamin Hippen argues that the Iranian system has saved thousands of lives and it should be used if not as model then to inform America's efforts to eliminate its deadly shortage.
Want to solve the organ donor shortage? Learn from Iran and permit donors to be compensated.
*NB: This doesn't mean I approve of the Iranian regime or welcome its policies in other areas. That should be obvious, I know, but sometimes one needs to make these things clear. Even stopped clocks and all that...
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Alf Tupper C.R.O.F.
July 1st, 2009 6:06pm Report this commentThe Iranian regime have another soloution to the supply shortage of organs: send men out on to the streets and shoot healthy young women.
Sorted.
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