<p>If <em>every</em> student had this automatic access to 46K for a kidney, you can bet the average COA for college would go up a corresponding 46K. (And of course, most of this new revenue stream for the colleges would go to luxury dorms and other non-academic nonsense.)</p>
<p>The problem is that when Federal aid (loans, grants) go up, colleges KNOW that this is guaranteed money and they demand it. </p>
<p>The kidney idea is horrible, though.</p>