There are plenty of healthy spare kidneys walking around, unused.” - Jim O’Neill, set to lead the CDC, said in 2009 at a Peter Thiel event.
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He didn't really?
aug 31, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
Ugh. I mean, I believed you. But sometimes it's hard to believe such freaks actually say these things out loud and people are like "Yeah, that sounds like a solution!".
aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, with all the AI and propaganda, etc. you kind of can’t believe anything anymore… I didn’t believe it until I found the video.
aug 31, 2025, 8:49 pm • 2 0 • view
As a transplant anesthesiologist and bioethicist, I have concerns about this flippant ideal from O’Neill - a right-wing libertarian extremist who spent his career running investment funds with and for billionaire Thiel. O’Neill has no medical, scientific, or public health training.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 10 0 • view
His plan? Encourage people sell their organs. He says this with the confidence of a capital “L” Libertarian, as though it’s the most obvious solution to the organ transplant waiting list.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 7 0 • view
At the time this statement was recorded, lots of right wing libertarian think tanks, like the Cato Institute, were pushing this “solution” to the transplant waiting list. They love the “free market” that enriches the rich at the expense of the poor.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 8 0 • view
This video has resurfaced amid a national discussion about the dangers of organ donation in a financial system that already encourages Organ Procurement Organizations to push organ availability. Iran is the only country that allows such buying and selling of human kidneys.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 9 0 • view
Iran is the only country that allows such buying and selling of human kidneys. The practice there has been legal since 1993, with a fixed rate fee to sell organs. Who chooses to sell a kidney in Iran? People at the lowest financial rung of the country.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 10 0 • view
Wealthy Iranians (highly unlikely to be donors) can bypass the year long waiting list by paying donors thousands more privately. Saudi’s have forged Iranian documents so they too can access Iran’s kidney system. America will be no different.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 9 0 • view
Just look to Steve Jobs, who in 2009, received a liver transplant in Tennessee, despite living down the street from Stanford Hospital in California.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 6 0 • view
When you have a private jet and unlimited cash, you can afford to improve your chances of a transplant by being listed at multiple centers.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 9 0 • view
Legalizing organ sales will benefit far more wealthy people than people who must labor to maintain their meager hold on privatized health insurance. Meanwhile, on Independence Day 2025, Trump cut $1 trillion from Medicaid over the next 10 years.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 8 0 • view
Iran, to its credit, at least has a public healthcare system. To consider organ sales in a country that has just drastically cut healthcare access to poor Americans, is cruel and exploitative.
aug 30, 2025, 10:01 pm • 6 1 • view
Ya, he has two....we should use them first.
aug 30, 2025, 10:34 pm • 0 0 • view
😬
aug 30, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
For the love of all that is holy, let us all survive this administration's blatant attempts to kill us, one way or another. 🙏🏽
aug 30, 2025, 11:58 pm • 1 0 • view
F’ing ghoul
aug 31, 2025, 1:14 am • 0 0 • view
I use forced kidney donation for men as an analogy to explain why forced pregnancies should not be allowed. I use it b/c it's so extreme. I really am in the dark re: the depravity of the ppl in charge.
sep 1, 2025, 4:49 pm • 1 0 • view
All of this, coming from a Theil event, is not shocking. Ultimately that's what will (most likely) kill me. The cancer gets bored and goes kidney eating. Will I get - no. Im on budget chemo, when that's a thing.
aug 30, 2025, 10:08 pm • 2 0 • view