Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?

• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  in America you donate blood for free, and your blood gets sold to the hospitals for 100-400 dollars. then the hospitals charge the patients who receive it even more than that.

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  • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In Canada we donate blood for free, then they sell it to America.

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    • twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is true. And Canadian Blood Services is still super homophobic.

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      • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Are they?

        Canadian Blood Services (CBS) says it plans to introduce the new behaviour-based questionnaire approach “no later” than Sept. 30. It will apply to both blood and plasma donations, outside of Quebec.

        It will mean that when all donors are screened before rolling up their sleeves, they’ll be asked whether they have recently engaged in anal sex in the context of new or multiple sexual partners within the last few months. If they have, they would not be able to donate until they had gone three months without engaging in that activity.

        I thought that change (2022) was the end of the discussion.

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    • unreasonabro@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      to top up all the dumbasses who get shot down there in actual hell

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• kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In my country you get a day off on top of being paid for your blood donation, I think you get some tax benefits on top of that too.

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