A Market for Donor Kidneys Is Not the Reform the U.S. Needs

In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, freelance journalist Dylan Walsh made the case for a regulated market for kidneys in the United States in which donors would be paid. He isn't the first. Two living kidney donors advocated for this in a Los Angeles Times op-ed last summer. The Wall Street Journal explored the pros and cons from a capitalist standpoint in November.

In the time since this problem was identified, hospitals have implemented new algorithms, leading to shorter wait times for transplant for Black patients.Economists also have done a lot of good for the transplant system. Alvin Roth won the Nobel Prize in 2012, in part for his work designing algorithms to match people with organs. Since then, researchers have improved these matching algorithms and further optimized transplant system performance.

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