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While we in the US are currently arguing the economic sustainability of our health care system and the profiteering of the insurance industry, the Iranian kidney donors profiled here have their backs to the wall. Watching this, one will empathize with the universal inequities patients share when confronted with one’s inability to pay the price for a pound of flesh.

NEWARK, N.J. — Levy Izhak Rosenbaum of Brooklyn called himself a “matchmaker,” but his business wasn’t romance.

Instead, authorities say, he brokered the sale of black-market kidneys, buying organs from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and selling them to desperate patients in the U.S. for as much as $160,000.

The alleged decade-long scheme, exposed this week by an FBI sting, rocked the nation’s transplant industry. If true, it would be the first documented case of organ trafficking in the U.S., transplant experts said Friday.