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Health insurance? It's a helluva lot cheaper to buy someone a new set of kidneys for 6k and pay for the surgery than it is to pay for daily dialysis for months on end! No one is getting "screwed".
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Great, except thats irrelevant. In the current system the kidney is 'free', you're saying it should cost 6K. Thats an extra 6K on top of the current amounts (becuase nobody currently getting money is going to decrease their price). Who's paying that extra 6K?
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Are insurance companies going to pay for it? Sure, but they just pass that cost on with a markup. That money getting paid to patients has to come from somewhere.
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Nevermind, you're right.
Simplistic arguments are the best kind
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These links don't really address the point you quoted about increasing insurance costs. You think companies are going to pay this extra money out of the goodness of their hearts?
One url talks about how complicated it is to become an organ donor. I answered a question yes. Real [censored] complicated. It also mentions how family can override a person's wishes, but thats irrelevant to our argument.
Other links talk about how much money companies make and how paying patients would be better. 5 minutes with Google gave me a number of links arguing against such a system. I honestly don't particularly care, but to argue that one should not donate organs in order to make debatable improvements to the system is asinine. There are better ways to achieve change that don't punish innocent people.
Tell me, what other activities have you partaken to increase the publics awareness of your campaign to change organ donor laws?