# Why Don’t We Let People Sell Their Organs? | Monologue Monday

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Podcast: [Common Sense with Chad Law | Political Commentary](https://stenobird.com/podcast/common-sense-with-chad-law-political-commentary-4943048)
Published: 2026-08-11T19:00:00+00:00
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Text the show! What happens when a morally well-intentioned system produces terrible results? Chad begins with the case of Keith Lott, a 47-year-old New Jersey man whose family says they spent two days fighting an organ procurement organization over whether his organs could be recovered after his death. But that story opens a much larger question. America desperately needs kidneys. Living donation has remained essentially flat for decades. Dialysis costs taxpayers enormous sums. And yet fede...

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