Comment on How come not all people are organ donors? It's not like they will need them where ever they go.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 weeks agoit would no longer be a donation, it would be a sale.
A friend’s father received a liver, among the line items of the $1.05M bill was $86,000 for the liver. So yes, organs are being sold.
US hospitals are not a huge money making business.
We’ll stop there.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’ve been working in hospitals for 20 years and have seen our finances, they make very little profit on inpatient admissions, most patients are losses. Outpatient surgery and things like that are how they make money.
Take your number of 5.45 billion profit for the industry. There are 6100 hospitals in the US. That’s an average of $893,442 per hospital. That’s not a lot of profit.