The article is incorrect<p>> In every country that does transplants — except one — patients have two legal ways to get a new kidney. One is to have a friend or relative who is a blood and tissue match donate a kidney. The other is to get on the waiting list for a deceased donor.<p>There are also kidney exchanges. If you have a friend or loved one whose kidney is not an exact match, they can exchange it for a matching one in an exchange market.<p>The NYTimes covers it some here
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/the-great-american-kidney-swap.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/03/magazine/the-great-america...</a><p>There is an excellent EconTalk about matching economies as well. At 10:32 in is the kidney discussion <a href="http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/alvin_roth_on_m.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/07/alvin_roth_on_m.htm...</a><p>UCLA's kidney exchange program
<a href="http://transplants.ucla.edu/site.cfm?id=112" rel="nofollow">http://transplants.ucla.edu/site.cfm?id=112</a>
There should be more focus on the deceased donors issue: even when a dead person explicitly stated they were willing to donate organs, the administration still asks family, and they often refuse, mostly for religious reasons.
Look what happened in France when the government tried to make deceased donation the default: all the religious zelots went postal about it, and it didn't happened. As a result, people continue to die by dialysis.