Javier Milei will most likely be elected president of Argentina in the elections on October 22 this year. After the change of command, the program of economic stabilization will be started, certainly with dollarization. This program would have to be accompanied by compensatory measures to mitigate the negative effect on the strata in a lesser position.

Milena’s enigma

Behind Javier Milei’s lush hairstyle and his past as a footballer and singer is the implementation of an ultra-neoliberal agenda, once the economy stabilizes. Dollarization would open the door to the introduction of radical reforms based on individual rights and market forces. Within the framework of this doctrine, any state intervention in the economy is suspicious and is nothing more than a plan to enrich the group and stay in power.

One of the policies that would be implemented during the Milei government would be the partial or complete liberalization of the human organ market. Currently, almost all over the world, organ transplants are carried out through donations, and their free purchase and sale is prohibited. A citizen wonders if, in case of death, he would be willing to give his organs – in exchange for nothing – to sustain the lives of other individuals. When it comes to donating living organs, you usually donate them to a relative or loved one. In none of these cases would it be a commercial transaction.

Are leaders delusional?

Banning the commercialization of these organs results in a black market. Citizens enter into secret contracts so that an individual in need can sell a kidney to someone who urgently needs it. On the other hand, official decisions about which patients receive a donated kidney and which do not are opaque. Perhaps they are dominated by influence peddling or decisions about whether one person’s life is worth more than another’s.

In the United States, 17,000 kidney transplants are performed annually, but the demand is 35,000, which has created a waiting list of more than 100,000 patients over the years. It is estimated that 6% on this list die because they do not get their turn, because on average the patient has to wait 4.5 years.

Miley’s ultra-neoliberal agenda would therefore turn Argentina into a giant laboratory…

After analyzing what would happen if the kidney market were liberalized in the United States, Gary Becker – winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Economics – reported controversial results. He concluded that if between $15,000 and $35,000 per kidney were offered, the waiting list would disappear in two to three years, due to the increase in supply. Not only would it avoid the death of citizens waiting, but huge savings would be made for society by reducing the need to carry out expensive procedures such as dialysis.

Milei’s ultra-neoliberal agenda would therefore turn Argentina into a vast laboratory for experimenting with radical reforms, such as the liberalization of the organ market. Milei would have all the political capital provided by recent governments, which have made Argentina a monetary and foreign exchange hell. (OR)