I’ve been a blood donor for most of my adult life, and have donated about 30 liters. Where I’m at you get a token donation and a thanks for donating, but someone mentioned that in the US you get paid quite a lot depending on the quality and the blood type.
I have a fairly uncommon blood type (about 10% of the population) and a blood count of around 150.
So, how wealthy would I have been if I had donated my blood in the US instead?
wtf is wrong with USA??? why is this even a question?! fck
how isn’t a bad thing having a price in blood? why did everything become a product there? It means that people are so selfish that only money is capable of making them do something. Blood donation should be a voluntary act, not having a price in it o.O
When was the last time you donated your blood, out of the goodness of your heart?
Statistically u be poor af. The blood donation places that pay u in the states are in all the poor areas. Ita a wonder example of why they are thw worlds greatest 3rd would country.
At least that’s good. Keeps the wrong people from donating. Thanks for your answer.
Wonder if they could save some time and not put the rest back, just give it to a zoo to feed vampire bats or something… 🤔
I’ve only donated a few times but from what I recall you can donate blood or sell plasma. Always struck me as weird but the difference is that they use the whole blood medically while the plasma only is used for research or commercial purposes. We do love to make a market for near everything possible here.
As for how much, not sure exactly since I haven’t done so myself but I get the impression it’s not huge, maybe $20-$50 each time.
You’re thinking of plasma, people can get paid for that. Donating blood just gets you a cookie, the satisfaction of helping people in need, and a sticker.
Yeah. The motivation was never money. I was just curious since I heard that you got paid in the US. Apparently I was misinformed.
Where I live, the places that do blood donations, also do plasma donations. The process is longer, but is otherwise a similar experience. And since plasma is extracted from blood, it is not entirely wrong to argue that people can get paid for blood donations in the US. It is not accurate, but I would argue the statement is probably based on a truth.
The process might be similar on the withdrawal side, but they are used for very different things. Blood is used to replenish the blood of someone undergoing surgery or who was injured or whatever. Plasma is not given to people. It’s used to make pharmaceutical products primarily. So it’s the difference that one is a necessity to modern medicine and a hell of a lot of it is needed or people will definitely die and much of modern surgery wouldn’t be possible. The other is an ingredient for for-profit products.
