AST will examine a pilot study of financial incentives
From Al Roth's blog today Monday, June 1, 2026 The American Society of Transplantation prepares to consider a pilot study of financial incentives for living...
Survey of economists concerning Living-Donor Kidney Transplants
Al Roth's always interesting blog (https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/) has this entry today.[Go to Al's blog to see the details] Wednesday, May 27, 2026...
Marcus Aurelius and Victor Hugo
Friends, Since we are engaged in a very contentious debate about the suffering and deaths of tens of thousands of kidney failure patients each year, it is...
Al Roth discuss his new book, Moral Economics
Watch Economics Nobel Laureate Al Roth discuss his new book, Moral Economics at: https://marketdesigner.blogspot.com/ Saturday, May 16, 2026 You can watch...
Rachel Bennett Steury's Memoir
Rachel Bennett Steury has asked me to mention her recently released memoir Losing My Kidney and Finding My Voice: Confessions of a Living Donor. Rachel...
Debate Today on the End Kidney Deaths Act
On Friday, May 15 at 12:00 PM ET Mario Macis will host a panel discussion on the End Kidney Deaths Act. The Organ Donation Dilemma: Ethics, Economics, and...
A Shocking Story of Opposition to Kidney Exchanges
Friends, It has long disturbed me that some people are willing to allow kidney failure patients to die for lack of a transplant than they are to give up...
Ilya Somin Comments on Roth's Op-ed
Yesterday I sent you a wonderful op-ed in the Washinton Post by Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth based on a chapter in his new book “Moral Economics” that will be...
Why paying people to donate kidneys is a good idea
Washington Post Opinion Why paying people to donate kidneys is a good idea With 90,000 patients waiting for a kidney, compensating living donors would save...
Excessive Caution in New Zealand May Cost Lives
Organ donation after assisted dying needs safeguards, not roadblocks Dylan Mordaunt May 4, 2026 Excessive caution can become its own ethical failure when it...
Germany legalizes kidney exchange
Al Roth calls our attention to this great news from Germany. Axel Ockenfels forwards the good news. He writes: "It passed! The Bundestag voted today to...
What Kidney Donor Expenses Can Be Legally Paid by a Kidney Recipient?
Friends, The purpose of this message is to encourage patients who would like to receive a kidney transplant to consider reimbursing some of the expenses of...
Update on the End Kidney Deaths Act
The very energetic Elaine Perlman and her team have been having great success in their efforts to pass the End Kidney Deaths Act! Here is her latest report....
Legal Uncertainty About Donor Compensation Is Killing People
Friends, Bob Gutman calls our attention to this article about a Pennsylvania bill that would allow living organ donors to deduct up to $10,000 in...
WHO's Analysis of the Organ Shortage
Friends, Here is a very long article: https://observervoice.com/transplantation-173727-organs-but-190824/ examining The World Health Organization’s data on...
Dr. Montgomery: The need for transplant organs is much greater than the waiting list
Here is a very interesting interview by Irish reporters of Dr. Robert Montgomery of NYU. The part I found most interesting was his statement that the need...
Would Compensating Kidney Donors Exploit the Poor?
The most politically-influential, but specious, argument put forth by the opponents of compensating kidney donors is that it would exploit the poor. Their...
Research on Livers
Sally Satel highly recommends this article on liver research: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-03-satellite-livers-alternative-liver-...
The Question No One Asks
The Question No One Asks: Why Do We Have a Shortage of Transplant Kidneys? If there is anything that all members of the transplant community agree on it is...
Great Progress Made in Passing the EKDA
Friends, Elaine Perlman (Executive Director of Waitlist Zero) and her team are making great progress toward getting the “Ending Kidney Deaths Act” (EKDA)...