Recent economic analysis from the University of Buffalo suggests healthy young donors, in economies similar to that of the United States, would sell a kidney or a portion of a liver at prices that would drastically increase the number of organs available for transplant and increase transplant cost by 12 percent. 
 
The study also acknowledges donating an organ for transplantation may affect an individual's quality of life, risk of mortality, and ability to perform activities for some period of time after surgery.
 
The current system for organ procurement does not allow payments for organs.
 
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This article originally appeared in the January 2008 issue of Kidney Transplant Today.