Every day 13 Americans die while waiting for a kidney transplant. This is a problem we can solve by waving a little money around. The reason we don’t is that people such as Michael Sandel think it is unethical to involve something as icky as money in something as important as a life. My own ethics and morals work the other way around. We should be doing what works to save those lives, the involvement or not of dead presidents printed on green pieces of paper be damned.

Which brings us to the current administration and president. They have just taken a baby step toward making things better. This ethically driven “Ewwww!” about involving money in transplants has meant that people cannot be paid for donating an organ. Right now, they can’t even be paid the wages they lose while recovering from having done so. This is the rule that is being changed. In the future you will be able to have your lost earnings made up, as well as the medical expenses that can already be covered.