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Wednesday, October 12, 2011

A Bone to Pick and Fix, Web Bone-Marrow Bounty Takes on Paid-Donor Ban

We have to get the government out of our health care! Government is overly involved as a meddlesome nuisance.

There is an old country saying that goes: 'In a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed!'


Rather than being just involved, Virginia Postrel is committed to organ and marrow donation.

Web Bone-Marrow Bounty Takes on Paid-Donor Ban: Virginia Postrel - Bloomberg
By Virginia Postrel 10-10-11
When Amit Gupta told his friends a few weeks ago that he had acute leukemia and needed a bone- marrow transplant, the word spread quickly.

Gupta, the 32-year-old founder of the do-it-yourself photography sitePhotojojo and the collaborative-working community Jelly, is not only beloved by his friends. (“One of the nicest, most genuine, most creative people you could ever meet,” is a typical encomium.) He’s something of an Internet sensation, with more than 14,000 Twitterfollowers. And he’s a former intern for Seth Godin, the best-selling author and marketing guru.

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So he wrote a post on his own blog offering to pay $10,000 to anyone who became a match for Gupta and made the stem-cell donation, or to give the money to that person’s favorite charity.

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There was only one problem. The offer was illegal.
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