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Supply and Demand 2
Title: Supply and Demand 2
Category: Literature / English
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Supply and Demand 2
Recent medical advances have greatly enhanced the ability to successfully transplant organs and tissue. Forty-five years ago the first successful kidney transplant was performed in the United States, followed twenty years later by the first heart transplant. Statistics from the United Network for Organ Sharing (ONOS) indicate that in 1998 a total of 20,961 transplants were performed in the United States. Although the number of transplants has risen sharply in recent years, the demand for organs far …showed first 75 words of 1019 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1019 total…of supply compared to the demand, allocation mechanisms are necessary. Some of these mechanisms can be “morally bound.” Since a person’s life is on the line in this market, any dead-weight loss at all is a serious matter. One can only hope this market is more concerned for life than it is for economic benefits.
Works Cited
Yoakam, Diane M. “Organ Donation: The Gift of Life.” 1999.
http://www.healthatoz.com/atoz/readingroom/Organ.asp
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