Elaine Perlman
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Elaine Perlman is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between February 10, 2024 and October 13, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Elaine Perlman, $50,000, to lobby for changes in the laws around kidney donation”; “Elaine Perlman, $94K, to continue lobbying for kidney donation incentives”. It most often appears alongside ACX Grants, ACX Grants, African School of Economics.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: February 10, 2024
- Last seen: October 13, 2025
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- ACX Grants (2 shared issues)
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- African School of Economics (2 shared issues)
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- Andrew Martin (2 shared issues)
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- Anton Makiievskyi (2 shared issues)
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- Austin Chen (2 shared issues)
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- Calvin French-Owen (2 shared issues)
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- Charter Cities Institute (2 shared issues)
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- Clara Collier (2 shared issues)
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- Coalition To Modify NOTA (2 shared issues)
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- Greg Sadler (2 shared issues)
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- Kurtis Lockhart (2 shared issues)
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
Elaine Perlman, $50,000, to lobby for changes in the laws around kidney donation. I discussed this further in part VIII here: there’s a severe shortage of organs, and the easiest way to solve it is to let the government give people tax breaks for organ donation. Elaine works with the Coalition To Modify NOTA, a group of doctors, donors, recipients, and others who are fighting to turn this into law via the End Kidney Deaths Act.
Inline links: here, Coalition To Modify NOTA
Elaine Perlman, $94K, to continue lobbying for kidney donation incentives. Elaine works with Waitlist Zero and the Coalition To Modify NOTA to promote the End Kidney Deaths Act, which offers valuable tax credits to kidney donors. They estimate this bill could save 100,000 lives over the next decade, and save the government $50 billion/year (dialysis is very expensive, Medicare currently covers it, and transplantees would no longer need it). Since our previous grant last year, the EKDA has been cosponsored by 29 members of Congress, discussed in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and profiled in the LA Times. The prediction markets are down to only 25% chance it gets passed this year, but I’m optimistic about 2026 - 2027