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 now a bill that's, that's trying to make its way through Congress is called the end kidneys deaths act.
And it would give a limited compensation through, uh,
uh, income tax credits to non-directed donors, to people who, to kidney donors who donate a kidney anonymously without specifying who it should go to.
And they're very valuable in the kidney exchange system that's, that's been developed.
Uh, and I had a hand in, uh,
because they can spark long chains of donations where patient donor pairs who are looking to participate in kidney exchange can each get a kidney before they give one, and that produces a lot of kidneys.
And we have about 500 non-directed donors a year in the United States.
So we're not talking about a giant expense.
If we were, by being nicer to them, if we were able to double it, that would be really good for...
patients who need kidneys, and would pay for itself in the fact that it's really expensive to take care of kidney patients.
And Medicare pays most of the bills for kidneys, even for young people.
So this is a real no-brainer, it seems to me, at least as an experiment.
In my book, I'm often talking about experiments.
That is, we're looking at some market that isn't working well.
Most people who need a kidney die without one.
Could we move the needle a little bit with this modest legislation?
So I am not optimistic, but I would like to see that legislation passed.
Yeah.
So here we are back in 2000, and there's a terrible kidney shortage.
There were about 40,000 people on the waiting list for kidney transplants when I started to get involved in this.
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