US EditionHow to boost kidney donations with $50,000 incentive | Steven Levitt and Ruby Rorty
- Legislation aimed at boosting living kidney donations by offering $50,000 refundable tax credits to nondirected donors is set to be introduced again in Congress in 2025.
- This measure responds to the kidney shortage where over 90,000 Americans wait for transplants and only about 1 in 4 receive a kidney each year due to legal and institutional barriers.
- Living kidney transplants last up to twice as long as deceased-donor ones, donors have similar life expectancy to nondonors, but financial disincentives averaging $38,000 discourage donations.
- The coalition estimates the act could provide kidneys to 100,000 Americans over 10 years and save taxpayers between $10 billion and $37 billion from reduced dialysis costs.
- Although this policy may not fully solve the kidney shortage, it could reduce disparities impacting low-income Americans and increase living donations if lawmakers, medical institutions, and voters cooperate.
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How to boost kidney donations with $50,000 incentive | Steven Levitt and Ruby Rorty
For economists, America’s organ shortage is a perplexing public health problem. About 37 million Americans suffer from kidney disease, and more than 800,000 live with kidney failure. At this advanced stage, patients either receive a kidney transplant or remain on…
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