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No, it wouldn't.
The only organ you can donate in whole is a kidney. Estimates for a U.S. clearing price are around $15,000 [1]. (Higher in Iran, but mostly absorbed by brokers [2].) For comparison, between CARES, the 2020 supplemental and ARP the median American adult received around $3k ($5k including child benefits). That didn't go a third of "a long way towards" eliminating all poverty.
In exchange you create a monetary incentive for donors to lie about disease status and drug use.
[1] https://stanford.edu/~alroth/AMNews_Jan.28,2008.pdf
[2] https://www.frontierspartnerships.org/journals/transplant-in...
I’ll take this solvable problem in exchange for the much more complex problem of there not being enough organs to go around
Sure. Most Americans—including a commanding majority of medical experts—wouldn’t.
You’ve also shifted the goalposts. We weren’t discussing the “problem of there not being enough organs,” but that of whether such a market could be an effective anti-poverty tool.
That’s… fine? I don’t mind most Americans disagreeing with me, that doesn’t offend me at all :)
> We weren’t discussing the “problem of there not being enough organs,” but that of whether such a market could be an effective anti-poverty tool.
I’m okay conceding this point. I don’t care whether it relieves poverty or not. That’s not the goal here
That's clear. It's nevertheless what you argued up chain.
Did you miss this?