The government should devise a safe, regulated system in which would-be donors are offered incentives to donate a kidney.

The organ transplant list is approaching 100,000 patients, but the waitlist doesn't reflect the full scope of the problem.

When Altruism Isn't Enough explores the key ethical, theoretical, and practical concerns of a government-regulated donor compensation program.

The nation’s system for procuring and distributing vital organs is badly broken. Demand vastly outstrips supply. Today, there are over 92,000 people waiting for organs—mostly kidneys–and each day eighteen of them will die before they get one. The wait in many locations is over five years and by 2010, it...

Rewarding organ donors for their remarkable gifts can be ethically permissible, economically justifiable, and pragmatically achievable.

The message is clear: A slowly dying patient must not take any initiative to save his own life, even though the status quo is pitifully inadequate.

The nation"s system for procuring and distributing vital organs for transplant remains deeply troubled, with demand vastly outstripping supply.

Eleven Americans die each day because they cannot get a kidney transplant. The best way to provide more kidneys is tocompensate donors.