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There are several reasons why I support the position of the author. First of all each individual has authority over himself, and is entitled to make any personal decision about what is moral and right for him. Of course there will be many people who are for or against the fact of selling a kidney and if this action is ethical or incorrect. People who are in favor of this action believe it is ethical to sell his kidney because it is the life and body of them. (Ethics and Free Markets, 2008) Julian Savulesco the author proposes an interesting idea "if an individual is owner of anything, that person has a natural right to do anything, and of course is his body. In fact the power each individual has to give their organs or body parts to others, implies that it is the owner. When you give something that means that you are the owner. - And if you can give something, you can also sell "(Salvulesco, 2008). In life people make all kind of decisions that involve risks and between risks is money. Some individuals choose to take hazardous jobs, and this decision has been overtaken by the increase of money that exceeds any risk (John & Erin, 2004). Other individuals make the decision of damaging their body for pleasure such as alcohol and high-risk sports (John & Erin, 2004). These activities are not prohibited and will not be judged by society. Friedman argues, the autonomy of each person to allow the sale of kidneys. He supports that, "the case for legalizing kidney purchase hinges on the key premise are Entitled to Individuals That Control of Their Own body parts to the point of events inducing Risk of life" (Friedman & Friedman, 2005) The second reason why I am in favor of the author has to do with financial incentives that would lead to a significant increase in donations and of course an increase in salvation of many lives. Dr Arthur Matias proposed a plan in which donors could sell their kidney, the government would have to set a price and expenses would be covered by the beneficiary's health insurance (Perry, 2006) The sellers of course will be both psychologically and physically scanned before any transplant. The next step would be to track them to see what impact had on their lives, the fact of the sale, as well as physical health (Perry, 2006). Mark G Perry is a professor of finance and economics from the University of Michigan; he uses economics to support that proposals such as that of Mata’s might increase the number of organs available for transplantation. The professor also explains that when there Shortage, the market price is absent. Market prices would eliminate or decrease the Shortage. And is for this reason that the market price for kidneys could reduce or eliminate the scarcity, which would lead to saves thousands of lives (Perry, 2006). A market with a minimum fair price, as well as the minimum wage is determined, would prevent being taken advantage of the poor and would give buyers a second chance in life (Savulescu, 2008) The third reason why I am supporting the author, it is because the sale of kidneys would provide a benefit to Medicare or any insurance company (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2005). The Maryland School of Medicine conducted an investigation and determined that a kidney transplantation not only would improve the quality of life of patients, but also it would save significant amounts of money (university of Maryland Medical Center, 2005). During the investigation it was found that it is also less expensive a kidney transplant, than the need to stay in renal dialysis for years until they found a compatible donor (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2005). Indeed, researchers found that the equilibrium point was 2.7 years, which saved the hospital approximately $ 27,000 per year for each of the patients. (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2005). But much more significant was the finding that the use of kidneys from a living donor lowers costs because these kidneys work better than a cadaver kidney (University of Maryland Medical Center, 2005). In conclusion, if they could make the payment of a living donor to be legally and ethically a correct action as well as other medical practices, sales of kidneys would be economically rational. Being able to set a fair market price for each kidney would address the concerns and worries about fairness and would prevent exploitation by illegal markets (Savulesco, 2008). Setting a fair market price is also very likely to be much more attractive for a person to sell his kidney. This also brings an increase in supply, would reduce the demand and would eliminate the shortage.