Organs in the American Markeplace  Would you give up your kidney
to save a stranger's life?  How about if you were paid you
handsomely to do so?  That is the crucial question tackled by a
recent study from the University of Pennsylvania on living organ
donation.  In a world where thousands of people die each year
waiting for a donated organ to become available, researchers
sought to tease out the factors that impact decisions to donate.
They found that the higher the payment, the more people are
willing to go under the knife.  The concept of selling one's
organs to pay the bills is fraught with disconcerting
implications, but if the study's findings hold true, an organ
market may be a particularly effective way of boosting donation
rates and, consequently, saving lives.  "If someone were to
design an [organ donation] system, they would never design a
system [like the current one] that allowed thousands to die each
year while costing the government $33 billion in medical costs,"
says Dr. Scott Halpern, the l