A lthough there are more than 16 million blood donations per year provided to more than 4 million recipients, blood shortages have recurred for decades with amazing periodicity, approximately twice every year, in the summer months over 4th of July and Labor Day and during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. Anyone with any experience at blood centers or transfusion services is quite accustom...

This article, the second concerning the organ donation crisis, proposes the use of tax policy to encourage blood and organ donation. After critiquing the ethical and logistical problems posed by other commercial and non-commercial solutions, the author demonstrates how tax credits can be used as an effective and ethical solution to address the shortage of donors. The author also offers two mode...