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Virginia Postrel: How to Reform Health Care Without Killing Innovation

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Former Reason magazine Editor in Chief Virginia Postrel has seen the strengths and the shortcomings of the American health care system both as a kidney donor and a breast cancer survivor.

She argues that individuals should be free to sell their organs, and that encouraging organ markets may be the best way to save the lives of the more than 100,000 Americans currently awaiting transplants.

A 2009 article Postrel wrote for the Atlantic Monthly highlights her experience with the ultra-expensive wonder drug, Herceptin, and the perils of centrally controlling health care costs.

Reason.tv's Ted Balaker sat down with Postrel to discuss organ markets, wonder drugs, and how to reform health care without squashing innovation.

Interview by Ted Balaker. Shot by Hawk Jensen and Paul Detrick. Edited by Paul Detrick.

Music: "Something New" by Very Large Array (Magnatune Records).

Approximately nine-and-a-half minutes.

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Postrel, the editor in chief of the blog Deep Glamour, talks to Reason.tv about politics, style, and voter expectations at http://youtube.com/reasontv.

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