Organ Donation: Claim of Policy 
In the article “Need an Organ. It Helps to be Rich” a claim of policy was being supported. The claim of policy that was being supported was that anyone who is willing to donate an organ should be eligible for a transplant themselves, regardless of the ability to pay. This claim of policy was supported by using sources, evidence, and appeals.
This claim was supported first by sources. When using sources it is important to make sure that the sources are credible. The author of the article “Need an Organ. It Helps to be Rich” is Joy Victory. She is the online health editor at the About.com and has written about health issues for newspapers and for ABC news. Her credentials affect the credibility of the argument because it shows that she knows what she is talking about and she isn’t just an amateur. A journal is not a credible source because journals are usually someone’s opinion and anyone can have an opinion on a topic. I think that all the sources quoted in the article are credible but, I believe that the bioethicist, bioethics fellow, Harvard professor of ethics, and the family law professor at Washington and Lee would be more biased than the cardiologist and the director of transplant center. This is because the profession that they are in requires for them while the cardiologist and the director of transplant center have no reason to be biased.
This claim of policy was also supported by evidence. The evidence that is used has to be convincing and sound. The statistics that are used in this journal are not very credible because for example in the National Study of Family Consent to the Organ Donation Siminoff served only families in Pennsylvania and Ohio. It came to be that 23 percent of organ donors were uninsured. Then it goes on to say that she believes that a national study would have similar results. The problem is that there are so many other states and 23 percent from two states cant represent the other states. Another example is from the article
This claim was supported first by sources. When using sources it is important to make sure that the sources are credible. The author of the article “Need an Organ. It Helps to be Rich” is Joy Victory. She is the online health editor at the About.com and has written about health issues for newspapers and for ABC news. Her credentials affect the credibility of the argument because it shows that she knows what she is talking about and she isn’t just an amateur. A journal is not a credible source because journals are usually someone’s opinion and anyone can have an opinion on a topic. I think that all the sources quoted in the article are credible but, I believe that the bioethicist, bioethics fellow, Harvard professor of ethics, and the family law professor at Washington and Lee would be more biased than the cardiologist and the director of transplant center. This is because the profession that they are in requires for them while the cardiologist and the director of transplant center have no reason to be biased.
This claim of policy was also supported by evidence. The evidence that is used has to be convincing and sound. The statistics that are used in this journal are not very credible because for example in the National Study of Family Consent to the Organ Donation Siminoff served only families in Pennsylvania and Ohio. It came to be that 23 percent of organ donors were uninsured. Then it goes on to say that she believes that a national study would have similar results. The problem is that there are so many other states and 23 percent from two states cant represent the other states. Another example is from the article