Thursday, August 24, 2017

Kidney cooperatives as a way of recruiting donors?

Here's an article in J. of Health Economics which proposes a novel way of giving monetary compensation to kidney donors, in a way that the authors think might not arouse repugnance. (I think they might underestimate the repugnance in some quarters.)

Solving the kidney shortage via the creation of kidney donation cooperatives
K.C.Eames, Patrick Holder,Eduardo Zambrano
J Health Econ. 2017 July, 54, 91-97. doi: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2017.04.001. Epub 2017 Apr 18.

"Kidney cooperatives follow a simple set of principles. Patients in need of a kidney donate a set amount of money to the cooperative if they are able to do so, whereas those who need a kidney but are unable to make the requisite monetary donation go on a “waiting list”. Healthy patients donate kidneys to the cooperative, which first allocates kidneys to patients who donated money, then disburses any remaining organs to those on the waitlist. All revenue raised by the cooperative is split equally among the kidney donors, who also receive lifetime “kidney insurance”.
co-operatives
follow
a
simple
set
of
principles.
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in
need
of
a
kidney
donate
a
set
amount
of
money
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the
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operative
if
they
are
able
to
do
so,
whereas
those
who
need
a
kidney
but
are
unable
to
make
the
requisite
monetary
donation
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