Just plasma. Blood can only be donated, not sold.
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kingofras@lemmy.world 2 days agoThe real dystopian thing for me is that you guys get paid to donate blood. That is just insane.
Psythik@lemmy.world 2 days ago
kingofras@lemmy.world 2 days ago
We don’t get paid for any bodily fluids.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Like, considering what US hospitals charge, plasma donors damn well should be paid. It’s a travesty that whole blood donors aren’t paid a penny. There should be a law that whatever a hospital charges for a blood transfusion, half of whatever they bill has to get paid to the donor. I’m fine with donation being an act of charity if the blood was going to be used for a charitable cause. But what we have now is that whole blood donors perform a charitable act…and then donate their blood to a greedy hospital that will charge patients thousands for the blood the donor was never paid for.