Alvin Roth
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677 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 May
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And this is a market that some people want to engage in.
And it's very hard to stop them, even in prison, where surely there's no place with more police control than a prison.
Yeah, there are, and plasma.
So Canada, which has had many laws, province by province, against selling plasma, has always potentially allowed Canadian blood services, the government, to pay.
And just recently, they've started to do so.
And they've started to do so by allowing a Spanish company, Grifols, which also operates in the United States, to collect plasma in Canada for pay and to be used in Canada.
And Grifols is a good example because Spain is one of the countries where it's illegal to pay plasma donors.
But Grifols is a subsidiary of a Spanish company that operates in North America and collects plasma here.
And that's why Spaniards are not dying of blood shortages.
So I think if I were asked to design an ethical, legal market in which we could be more generous to donors than we now are, that I could do so.
That doesn't mean that I'm in favor of a market where rich people directly buy kidneys from poor people, pricing poor people out of the market.
So, you know, and and
You know, with no safeguards.
And so I think one thing that would be defensible but is not about to happen anytime soon would be to amend the National Organ Transplant Act, which says no one may give birth.
valuable consideration for a kidney for transplant, to amend it to say, the way the Canadians have done with blood plasma, to say no one but the federal government may do that.
And then the kidneys that are obtained in this way would be, as deceased donor kidneys now are, considered to be a national resource that are allocated on the basis of medical need, so that poor people...
wouldn't be priced out of the kidney market when we now had a greater abundance of kidneys.
So I think that would be one thing to do.
Right now, there's some... Periodically, there's much more...
less ambitious legislation in front of Congress.
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