The Importance of Incentives in Organ Donation

I'm not convinced by any of the in principle arguments that try to show that nothing but an altruistic donation scheme could possibly work here. Organ donation is indeed an urgent problem but there are a number of other things that we can do to augment organ donation some of which are very very practical. Proper counselling, seeking consent, making sure that there's effective transfer of organs from one centre to another. Those kinds of sort of nuts and bolts, infrastructural issues may help considerably. For many kinds of donation that there really isn't too much of a problem at the moment. So blood is not in particularly short supply. Many organs are but there are other kinds of tissue that are not