I presented yesterday at the Health Select Committee on Chris Bishop’s member’s bill to compensate live organ donors.
The current regime, which prohibits private compensation for live organ donors but provides only trivial compensation to donors through the state, effectively spends a lot of money to worsen peoples’ lives and, ultimately, to kill them. Dialysis is far more expensive than transplant; every transplant saves money and saves and improves a life. Every transplant that doesn’t happen, because the state has prevented donors from being compensated adequately, costs a lot of money and kills somebody.
I’m very glad that Chris Bishop is trying to improve things. I think we can do even better, but his bill is a very large step forward. I would support it as it is; I’d be even happier if we could make the changes that were recommended in our submission.
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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