When you give blood it’s sold for $300 a pint to medical providers…
When the person receives that pint, they’re charged between 1k to almost 4k for it.
People need to give blood, but because of our for profit healthcare system, there are giant road blocks and expenses as it goes thru each “middle man”.
I used to give all the time, but the local “donation centers” all started cutting expenses and the last three times I gave they fucked it up because new staff weren’t getting trained correctly.
It’s the morally right thing to do to donate, but it enriches terrible people and perpetuates a horrible system.
This just came up at work. Long story short Red Cross kept failing to show up for blood drives, so work changed to a partnership with a heavily profit-driven and publicly amoral blood company.
A coworker pointed out that it is possible to donate directly at hospitals and bypass (at least some) of the middlemen. This is how I will donate from now on.
You think that’s bad?
When you give blood it’s sold for $300 a pint to medical providers…
When the person receives that pint, they’re charged between 1k to almost 4k for it.
People need to give blood, but because of our for profit healthcare system, there are giant road blocks and expenses as it goes thru each “middle man”.
I used to give all the time, but the local “donation centers” all started cutting expenses and the last three times I gave they fucked it up because new staff weren’t getting trained correctly.
It’s the morally right thing to do to donate, but it enriches terrible people and perpetuates a horrible system.
I’m a Brit and I’m fairly sure that’s not the case over here, but sadly that doesn’t surprise me at all about the American healthcare system…
This just came up at work. Long story short Red Cross kept failing to show up for blood drives, so work changed to a partnership with a heavily profit-driven and publicly amoral blood company.
A coworker pointed out that it is possible to donate directly at hospitals and bypass (at least some) of the middlemen. This is how I will donate from now on.