Fox Business’ John Stossel ‘upset’ poor people aren’t selling kidneys for $1,200

[kpete]

Fox Business’ John Stossel ‘upset’ poor people aren’t selling kidneys for $1,200

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Stossel’s list of things that needed to be privatized included parks, libraries, law enforcement, military and “organ selling.”

“Organ selling!” Doocy exclaimed.




“This upsets people, but I’m upset it’s not legal,” Stossel insisted. “In the one country where it is legal, nobody waits for a kidney.”

“Where is that?” Doocy asked.

“I’m afraid to say it’s Iran,” Stossel shrugged. “But, still! There’s no waiting line. In America, lots of people die waiting for kidneys.”




“So you think it should be legal in this country to sell off an organ you’re not using,” Doocy pressed.

“Yes, we have two kidneys, we need one, people need them,” the Fox Business host declared. “It’s your body, it should be your choice. Why does the government limit what you can do what you can do with your body?”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/11/07/fox-business-john-stossel-upset-poor-people-arent-selling-kidneys-for-1200/

"Why does the government limit what you can do what you can do with your body?”

Great Question
Idiots!!!

peace, kp

[Myrina]

1. Stossel is such a tool.

Gawd, I remember having to watch some shit pseudo-news-doc crap with him on it in college. 20 years ago.
He was a tool then too.

[burnsei sensei]

2. Life and limb are not commodities.

The ACA is the beginning of a new perception of humanity itself, it's more than just a health care law.
When health care really is a right, and single payer instituted, then we will be able to boast that as a society, we are pro-life.
To commodify a public good is to despise it.

[Revanchist]

3. Actually Australia just started allowing it this year

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/04/australia-to-compensate-organ-donors.html

I believe that it wouldn't be a bad idea to compensate family's for dead donations, maybe by waiving the medical bill for the stay that brought them there or by paying funeral costs. I just know we need to find ways to increase the number of available organs.

[Jackpine Radical]

14. However, the stupid Aussies wait until the donor is dead of other causes.

Damned inefficient, that. Why not let the living donor nurture the sacrificial kidney in their own body until it's needed?

[Revanchist]

20. They give 6 weeks paid leave to dead people?

Workers who want to donate a kidney will be offered up to six weeks’ paid leave under a federal government plan to reduce the waiting list for life-saving organs - See more at: http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/04/australia-to-compensate-organ-donors.html#sthash.CBcypelT.dpuf

[Jackpine Radical]

24. Oops--

Well, I SAID they were inefficient…

[Revanchist]

25. Lol

Damn those socialist countries, they'll do anything to keep people on "welfare"

[Rex]

4. Paging Doctor Death! Paging Doctor Death!

[BootinUp]

37. lol nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. You're missing the link to The Onion.

Come on, if you are going to post something so outrageous that no one would mistake it for anything other than satire, do us the courtesy of citing the source and the authors.

[onehandle]

6. And I'm upset we can't stone people who negatively impact society for financial gain.

Because, freedum. Or sumthin.'

[irisblue]

29. there goes 98% of wall street nt

[TwilightGardener]

7. More kidneys on the market, sold by desperate, possibly poorly-educated people in

bad circumstances who might come to regret having only one kidney when the diabetes or high blood pressure kicks in later in life. Yeah, what's wrong with that?

[el_bryanto]

8. Wasn't there a movie recently about organs being repossessed in a dark apocolyptic future?

Repo Men or something like that?

Bryant

[RockaFowler]

19. Yes there was

Except the organs were "Man-made" and the reason why people had to give them up is that they couldn't pay for them anymore. Horrible!!

[The2ndWheel]

9. Can't really argue with your body, your choice

[kiawah]

11. +1

I can't really see the issue here....

[DetlefK]

15. Abortion? Nobody was talking about abortion!

[Marr]

10. That is absolutely profane.

Even the Fox Business demographic ought to be sickened by that sentiment.

[Contrary1]

12. "So you think it should be legal in this country to sell off an organ you’re not using...”

Perhaps Stossel should consider selling the organ between his ears.

[kpete]

13. xlnt reply Contrary1

and peace,
kp

[Pretzel_Warrior]

16. Stossel has been a cartoon of himself for decades

Libertarians are fucking lunatics when you take their premises to logical conclusions.

[frylock]

17. stossel should sell his mustache to someone on the douchebag waiting list

[Chan790]

23. Mustaches are like livers.

You can take a donor liver and supply more than one recipient because a recipient with one lobe of liver will generate a functioning liver. It's common because of this to have living donors of livers who have donated part of their liver to a genetic relative.

Stossel's mustache, properly partitioned, could easily supply 3 or 4 fascists with a mustache transplant.

[LongTomH]

30. Mmmmmmm.....DUuuzzzyyyy!!!!!!

[LuvNewcastle]

18. Just think how much you could make in human trafficking.

When the girl gets too old to service the pedophiles she's rented out to, you could put her to sleep and harvest her organs. You wouldn't have to leave her any kidneys or any other organs. If selling the organs was made legal, you wouldn't even have to sell them on the black market.

[NightWatcher]

21. In Stossel's utopia would it be legal to hire someone to kick someone else's ass?

You know, free market and all?

[Scuba]

22. If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.

Jewish proverb.

[Revanchist]

27. From two years ago

[samsingh]

26. stossel is beyond crazy

[kiranon]

28. Next he'll probably say why waste money on the elderly and disabled.

The needs of the 1% come before the "so called needs" of anyone else - that is of the 99%. It's a return to the survival of the richest - the right wing version of evolution. IMHO.

[Initech]

31. Yeah let's sacrifice our vital organs because our corporate masters refuse to pay real wages.

And then they can continue to rake in those obscene profits while paying us nothing. Fucking idiots!

[gollygee]

32. So we create an economic system that keeps people very poor

so that they are desperate, and then we give them the "opportunity" to sell parts of their bodies.

This is bullshit and it is not really choice when you are coerced by poverty to do something so desperate. It makes me angry to see people use anti-abortion language about this kind of thing because it is NOT THE SAME.

[MisterP]

35. Brazil had to ban it too in the late 80s, since the poor were being incorporated into the rich

Nancy Scheper-Hughes wrote on it (she was the one at the center of investigating the NJ rabbis and mayors' organ-legging ring a few years back)

the RW *always* twists the previous generation's talking points to fit its needs: Reagan compared Americans fighting against Nicaraguan literacy to the Abraham Lincoln brigades and Lend-Lease, GMO flunkies always maunder on about global warming and evolution denial, and the right-libertarians are the undisputed kings of turning fairness and proletarian labor and equality on their heads to serve causes that'd make Bull Connor blanch

[Skittles]

33. I'm sure the price of kidneys would ensure only rich assholes like Stossel would get them

yes ineed

[KT2000]

34. A goal of free marketers

This is seriously a goal of free marketers. It has been written about in their circles for some time and do expect it to hit the mainstream at some point. They really do want this.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

36. Or we could execute people like you Stossel

And take your kidneys for free.

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