Wealthy can buy organ priority

Becuase Paris Hilton really deserves that kidney

Taxpayers spend millions of dollars a year to subsidize an organ transplant policy that gives well-to-do recipients an advantage over the poor.

Critics say the policy violates medical ethics by skewing a system that is supposed to be equitable. It’s especially galling, they say, because publicly funded Medicare pays for 70 percent of U.S. kidney transplants, the most common transplant operation.

Others, however, say the policy provides freedom of choice to patients who, their lives at stake, deserve any opportunity they can take to find an organ.

Yeah, the freedom to rob a kidney from some poor bastard who has been waiting longer...