Alvin Roth
speaker
677 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 May
Alvin Roth’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You want to give to the mother of your children, and I'm in that situation, but we can't.
But maybe I can give to your spouse, and you can give to my spouse, and that's a kidney exchange.
And over time, we've developed kidney exchange to involve
many more complicated transactions than that, including those chains begun by non-directed donors.
So the End Kidney Deaths Act is meant to be more generous to non-directed donors who save a lot of lives.
And I'd like to see that.
And another way that right now there's a barrier is if you live in a small country and you're hard to match, you need a kidney, but you have a lot of antibodies, it's going to be very hard to get a kidney either from a living donor or a deceased donor.
It would be nice if you could do kidney exchange across borders.
So during COVID, I got to go to the United Arab Emirates for the first kidney exchange between the UAE and Israel.
And
That took a lot of doing, but they managed to do it.
They've continued.
And it gives me hope that one day the U.S.
and Canada will be able to do kidney exchange together because periodically, you know, twice I've been to Canada to evangelize for that.
And the transplant professionals all recognize it as a good idea.
Sure.
Canada doesn't have much bigger population than California.
So we wouldn't do kidney exchange in the United States without California.
And it's sort of a shame that we in Canada can't help each other out.
But so far, just bureaucratic obstacles.
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