Sally Satel on Organ Donation

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🗓️ 24 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Sally Satel, psychiatrist and resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the challenges of increasing the supply of donated organs for transplantation and ways that public policy might increase the supply. Satel, who has received two kidney donations, suggests a federal tax credit as a way to increase the supply of organs while saving the federal government money. She also discusses the ethical issues surrounding various forms of compensation for organ donors.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.5	I'm your host, Russ Roberts, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:13.1	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
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0:25.2	going back to 2006.
0:27.5	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.8	We'd love to hear from you.
0:34.3	Today is July 6, 2017.
0:35.9	And my guest is Sally Satel.
0:38.0	She is a psychiatrist, author of numerous books, a lecture in psychiatry at Yale University
0:42.8	School of Medicine and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
0:47.3	She recently wrote an article with Alan VRD entitled, The Kindest Tax Cut, A Federal
0:52.7	Tax Credit for Orgidodations.
0:55.4	And that's going to be her topic for today.
0:56.9	Sally, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:59.2	Thanks for having me.
1:00.9	So you bring a special perspective to Kidney Donations.
1:03.6	Talk about your personal story.
1:05.7	Yeah, I got a kidney in 2006, and then I got another kidney a year ago, almost a year ago
1:15.0	today.
1:17.0	And when I got my first one, it was sort of a surprise.
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