Alvin Roth

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677 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 11 May

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But I think medical care is just unquestionably a market.

In many places, we've...

We have a national payer.

I mean, not in the U.S., but that doesn't make it not a market.

The doctors have to be paid.

The hospitals have to be built.

The equipment has to be maintained.

So medical aid and dying is medical aid.

People have always had some ability to end their own lives.

And the question about medical aid in dying is more often seen as how to manage your own death.

And 12 or maybe 13 states, New York State is about to have legal medical aid in dying, I think, come August of this year.

But a dozen American jurisdictions now allow medical aid in dying under restrictive circumstances.

And other countries, some other countries allow it under less restrictive circumstances.

And in the absence of, you know, and so there's some travel.

You know, I start the book with a paragraph about Danny Kahanman's decision to die.

to go to Switzerland to end his life, even though he was healthy enough to go to Switzerland.

I mean, he was, he was still pretty healthy for a, for a 90 year old guy.

Uh, but he didn't want, you know, he'd, he'd in his family had some witness, some, some lingering deaths and didn't want to have his be that way.

So I think that, um, there's a lot of opposition to that and there's a lot of, um,

a lot of interest in it.

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