Hospitals charge people for blood transfusions.. and organs transplants can be tens of thousands of dollars.. i find it hard to believe that the surgery itself would cost that much. My fear is that the institutions that collect them sell them to the hospitals to make money.. in turn forcing the hospital to charge the patient for it as well.. or even just the hospital charging for it for profit. Does anyone know how this works?
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It is seen as unethical to buy blood from individuals in the US. As such legally any blood that has money paid to the donor has to be marked as such. So hospitals won’t buy it cause they don’t want the bad PR. It’s too close to having poor people selling body parts for money. Blood plasma though squeaks by that marking law and those places are definitely sketch.
There’s some legitimate argument that paying for blood makes it so that people with something like a disease that makes them ineligible to donate will lie. Plasma isn’t as much of a concern because it’s heavily processed to get the useful bits out of it.
So basically blood has to be donated because people can’t pay for it and make money. It is absolutely sold by the guys who get the donations. 100%. For stacks of money.
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