Political feasibility is an unavoidable consideration in any discussion of compensating kidney donors. McCormick and Held take the latest a stab at it.
How to End the Kidney Shortage. Few if any of these news stories lamenting the kidney shortage or touting hightech breakthroughs mention that we already have a solution to the shortage: compensating kidney donors to induce more supply By Frank McCormick and Philip J. Held, SPRING 2023 • REGULATION (CATO Institute).
"A crucial question remains: what level of compensation should the government offer to kidney donors? The answer is a political judgment call that involves the tradeoff between the number of patients saved from premature death and the probability of getting a particular law or regulation changed.
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