The Political Orphanage Cash for Kidneys
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Nov 20, 2025 Jeremiah Johnson, founder of the Center for New Liberalism and host of the New Liberal podcast, advocates for living kidney donation. He reveals the staggering 100,000-person waitlist and explains why deceased donations aren’t enough. The proposed End Kidney Deaths Act offers a $10,000 yearly credit for strangers donating kidneys, potentially eliminating the waitlist. Jeremiah shares his personal donation experience, discusses the ethical implications, and highlights how financial incentives could effectively boost kidney donations, benefiting both donors and recipients.
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Three Motivations For Pro-Social Behavior
- Andrew Heaton frames all pro-social behavior as motivated by love, fear, or money.
- He argues society should rely on love first, then money, and fear as a last resort.
Guest Donated A Kidney To A Stranger
- Jeremiah Johnson shared that he donated one of his kidneys to a stranger in 2019.
- He described the act as personal and initially kept it private until recently.
Kidney Shortage Is An Allocation Problem
- Jeremiah Johnson says roughly 100,000 Americans are on the kidney transplant waitlist.
- Most could be cured with a transplant and living-donor kidneys give much better outcomes.