Our research shows that competitive bidding—a key feature of the Wyden-Ryan plan—could save Medicare $339 billion over ten years while maintaining basic benefits and without raising taxes. Crucially, the elderly would not be exposed to the risk of higher health care costs, as in approaches that would set fixed voucher payments toward the purchase of medical insurance.

Many of the quandaries that plague transplant medicine flow from the need to ration scarce resources.

An exceptional friendship provides a remarkable window into the state of organ donations in this country.

Medicare is being criticized by both experts and beneficiaries for its inability to keep pace with medical technology and modern health coverage, and for its impending financial shortfalls.

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

A bad incentive structure creates a dire shortage.

A personal story of heroic altruism (and the painful limits of altruism).