Sir Michel McNair Wilson, a member of Parliament who is on a waiting list for a new kidney, has argued that selling a kidney is like women in the nineteenth century selling their hair. "As someone waiting to receive a transplant, I would only like to feel the organ I am given is a gift from someone," he said. "But while there is a shortage of kidneys, I do not see why it is wrong for you to do what you will with your body."
If it takes $25,000 to $30,000 annually to keep someone alive on an artificial kidney machine," John M. Newman wrote in the Annenberg Program report, "government payment of, for example, $5,000 for transplantable cadaver kidneys(even with the cost of transportation), would still make successful kidney transplantation cost effective.