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#488 Erik Kimbrough: Norms, Institutions, Impersonal Exchange, Specialization, and Organ Donation

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How to Incentivize People to Donate More Organs

There are a number of systems that have been proposed particular Al Roth has worked a lot on this and so he's sort of the leading expert on increasing the supply of organs. An alternative would be to actually implement the kind of market that we're describing I think an intermediate proposal would be to cover you know health insurance costs for somebody who donates. If it's just you know lowering the costs of doing this for somebody or defering the cost of do this for somebody that seems to me to be a solution that maybe more people could get on board.

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