This event will discuss organ donation.

To help remedy the organ shortage, the District of Columbia should pass a law enabling donors to receive benefits for their sacrifice.

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

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...

Please note: This event has been canceled. At this event, Sally Satel, M.D., will discuss her new book, When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors and the national organ shortage.

Meaningful rewards for living donations could provide the answer to the kidney shortage.

Altruism is simply not enough to satisfy the global organ shortage that has spawned illegal and unregulated organ markets, so government-sponsored compensation of healthy of individuals who are willing to give one of their kidneys is the best short-term solution.