Kidney shortage causes preventable deaths

In the US, about 500,000 people are on dialysis and around 90,000 are on the kidney transplant waiting list, but fewer than 30,000 transplants are done per year, so most people who could live longer healthier lives with a transplant die without one; since healthy people have two kidneys, Gary Becker argued there is no shortage but a surplus, the real problem being that paying donors is illegal so prices cannot adjust supply.