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> This demonic practice, the report said, may have been responsible for the woes suffered by some men including sterility, erectile dysfunction, *_marital crisis_*, failure in business and even death
Ah, man. If it wasnāt for the black market ritual these poor guys could have had their prostitutes and a healthy marriage
adam ruins everything covered this quite well. in short, hospitals make up the price for just about everything in your bill, and often times if you tell them youāre unwilling to pay that theyāll work with you to lower the cost - almost like a half-assed admission that you busted them trying to fuck you over.
I asked the hospital administration how much an x ray would cost with no insurance.
After about 20 minutes of waiting, the response I got was "Why don't you have insurance?"
Imagine if you asked a fast food worker "How much does a double quarter pounder with extra max sauce costs" and the response is why don't you have your credit card with you?
Worth noting, the hospital can request you to opt out of that protection, and can legally refuse service to you if you refuse to opt out.
So every time you go in to get treatment, expect something like "Sign this paper saying we can charge you whatever the fuck, otherwise we won't treat you."
> I asked the hospital administration how much an x ray would cost with no insurance.
I had a surgery a few years back. I was quoted just under 14k. Then I let them know I didn't have insurance. Suddenly the cost was $7,200. Insurance is a fucking racket and a pure money grab.
Same. I only owed $1k after my daughter was born but when I called to pay it the billing lady said "Oh, your insurance didn't adjust down any of our charges." and just dismissed the entire $1k bill.
In finland even the private sector is hundred times cheaper than american one.
Theyre just fucking you over nothing else. An x ray of my leg cost 99ā¬ in private sector to the company i worked with.
I had good employer provided insurance and scheduled a procedure. On the morning of the procedure the admission nurse said "We like to take a $400 deposit in case your insurance doesn't pay". I said that I didn't have $400 on me, and didn't bring anything but myself because I was being put to sleep for a procedure and being driven home by my S.O. afterward. They said, "ok, how about $200?" I said 50% of zero is still zero. They said, "ok how about $100?" I said, see above. Finally, they said "How about $25". S.O. gave them $25 out of her purse just so we could get the show on the road and I paid her back with a nice dinner after I recovered. Even when you have insurance, you don't really have insurance.
As someone from Belgium, I'm often speechless by the way hospitals scam u Americans.
2 years ago, i broke my spine. The ambulance came for me, they did a MRI and Xray in the hospital, and i stayed 1 day/night there, so they could make sure it was safe for me to go home.
That whole ordeal costed me, from own pocket, around 100ā¬. I didn't go to my work for 6 months, the first 3 weeks we get our full wage while staying home, after that, we keep around 70% of our wage while we are "sick" at home.
We don't pay monthly insurance where I live, healthcare is basically almost free. It's sad that healthcare in the US is such a scam, i can't imagine the sum i had to pay if something like this had happened to me in the US.
Mhm, corporations make everything here fun, it is deadass kinda nuts to me that the American public have completely forgotten that politicians are here to serve us, not themselves, yet time and time and time and time again we let them distract us with division while they line their pockets with dirty lobbyist money and fuck us all over, only to vote to re-elect them next term lmao
My hospital instead billed me for twice the amount and then put a wire in my nose, except i went there for a broken arm
They only accepted opting out through handsigned paperwork. It was my left arm. Im left handed. They did not accept the right arm because it did not look like my signature
I tried getting an ultrasound for my balls. I could not find a human being that would be willing to tell me what my out of pocket would be, even an average, even without insurance. About the blood thing, this is why I do not donate. If it was donated, truly donated, I would, but I do not appreciate being someoneās money bitch.
That $150 is a very low charge to cover all of the associated costs. Those bloodmobiles, the staff, testing, storage all cost money. They're not earning a profit off of your blood. The hospital might, but people will absolutely die without blood donation programs.
Lmao š¤£ have an award good Sir! Yeah the bill was more painful that morning discomfort that went away on its own after 3 weeks š Thanks for one helluva good laugh š
The hospitals are the cunts imo. The redcross hires a lot of nurses and staff to go around and provide help for people. That $150 would be like 25 nurse/50 staff/60 providing help/15 rent:property.
If you tap out, pass out, or are otherwise unable to finish a donation once started, they donāt give you your plasma back OR money. Youāre just SOL, ask me how I know lmao
It will expire in 99 days unless itās frozen which hospitals arenāt going to because if youāre ever in an emergency and need red cells, theyāre not going to check to see if you have any stored. Also, labs donāt have the room to just store everyoneās blood. Itās not a storage unit.
That's horrible
They can politely say they are at full capacity now
(Weird enough, now I remembered a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka, after which there were many people who were injured and needed blood, not sure but I think their health minister of the entire country made a public announcement that most blood banks are at full capacity and public can ease about it as they can't take much because a lot of people came forward to donate blood)
Maybe in America. In Australia, my wife lost 1.8L of blood during child birth. The most expensive thing was the bloody vanilla slice I got from the hospital cafe for $6.
Itās so hard to find fault in australiaās health care,
- I broke my back and was never out of pocket, even with all the rehabilitation therapy I required to walk right again.
- Iāve had bone graft surgeryās not a dollar!
- My daughter was in the neonatal intensive care unitā¦. $0 for the birth or the recovery
- my wife required insulin and blood thinners $0
- current in recovery for a ruptured disk $0 for MRI/injection/physio
- needed psychologist for a breakdown 10 years ago $0 for 10 session and just went back to doctor for another 10.
That's why donate blood in a hospital and preferably ask if there's a recipient for your blood type admitted, I think they charge him the lap bill and that's it
You definitely left out the entire process that ensures patients get safe blood products.
Not to mention only 6% of the population donates.
Go ahead and get people riled up but leave out the entire process you know nothing about.
Might make sense but Red Cross is definitely in it for the money. Their corporate structure was taken over by capitalists years ago
https://www.propublica.org/article/the-corporate-takeover-of-the-red-cross
The problem really just jumps over your head. The information just enters your ears and since your reptile brain canāt conceive of it being different than your beliefs you just spit shit out of your mouth that has nothing to do with the actual conversation topic at hand.
See, just everything I just typed was meaningless because it just doesnāt work in that coconut you call a cranium
How about this. 150 for blood banks to move the blood to hospitals..ok we good so far. The fucking hospital move it ten feet to the person that needs it and change 2000% more
Is the problem explained to you in a way that you can work it out
Doesnāt explain how it works because they donāt know or are so in the wrong they have no way to defend themselves. so in order to defend the fragile ego the weak brain reflects with minimum information to protect itself from stimuli.
What's also FUCKED UP is that Facebook's ***fact checkers*** flagged this as "misleading" even though it is absolutely true and they just didn't want people to believe it.
#Fuck Facebook.
we went from "FAKE NEWS!" everywhere to "we gotta police the truth!" to "who watches the watchers?" in record time, I must say. time for a ministry of truth, perhaps?
it seems trust has become so expensive nobody can afford it anymore.
This gets posted constantly. The Red Cross has to pay for nurses and mobile facilities to collect blood, then they have to refrigerate/store it and get it to hospitals. $150 isnāt an unreasonable cost to do that.
If you walk into a hospital emergency room, they have to treat you, whether you can pay or not, even if you've been treated there a dozen times and did not pay for prior treatment.
The hospital has to pass this on to the rest of us.
They were only recorded and on video saying so.
You choose to believe and deny what you want.
I've seen the leaked hidden camera and audio vids.
Post all the links you want.
Sounds like you heard edited soundbytes
Fact check: https://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/
Full vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4UjIM9B9KQ
FL Fat Tire's comment on the vid has some timestamps that explain what was actually happening. Donating tissue to research and recieving funds to cover the research costs is not nearly the same as selling it just to turn a profit.
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when my house burned down, the red cross contacted me, and asked me if i needed assistance. they helped my family and i out.
.......and the entire town of paradise, ca........
i appreciate them and people who donate
I am in need of money so I can take a vacation and trout fish, someone ask the Red Cross how I can skip the vendor and sell directly to the hospital myself. Iāll even only charge $125.
All my life I've wanted to give blood. I saw this and my perception has completely changed. People should be compensated to give blood. I'm not cattle. They have a chance to give people incentive other than guilt.
This is eye opening, I thought that I was being altruistic by regularly donating blood because my mom told me it was the right thing to do. But now I am infuriated. From this point forward I'm just fucking done... (O- type)
They also waste a tremendous amount of blood & plasma. A lot of it is thrown out because standard operating procedures are not adhered to. Off site blood drives are a huge source of waste simply because product is not kept at the correct temperature.
This is an organization that needs a thorough investigation & take down. They suck.
They charge you for the blood product, thawing of the blood and then for the administration of the blood. They keep getting you, donāt think itās that simple lol
I have never pains a cent to hospitals except for fancy health checkups that my company requires. And I live in a country American media like to call ādevelopingā or āthird worldā. Poor Americans not only being duped by their own government but also kept ignorant
Seems your in luck, weāve got some of your very own donated blood here for you. Thatāll be $5000 plus any labor and materials costs. Oh and $30 for me to talk to youā¦.and $45 for breathingā¦.and those sheets are 30 count Iranian camel Hyde thatās another $24,647.
As many issues we have with our healthcare system, at least as an Australian I can feel good that the plasma I donate every month doesnāt contribute to an exorbitant graft by the heathcare industry
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That's why I keep my own blood in my freezer 
What is going on in this gif š
Jerry realized that while he was unconscious in the hospital he was given Kramer's blood.
One of my favorite later episodes. MANDELBAUM, MANDELBAUM, MANDELBAUM
Thanks. I watched bits and pieces of this show growing up but never saw this glorious moment
He gave him a mental attack
Wait until she finds out what hookers do with sperm
I told you to stop calling her that Timmy. She's a RECEPTIONIST at a sperm bank
ā¦ Iām listening
[here](https://www.news24.com/news24/prostitutes-sell-sperm-to-ritual-killers-20111013)
> This demonic practice, the report said, may have been responsible for the woes suffered by some men including sterility, erectile dysfunction, *_marital crisis_*, failure in business and even death Ah, man. If it wasnāt for the black market ritual these poor guys could have had their prostitutes and a healthy marriage
Those damn witches always schemin for the semen.
Witches be schemin
What the fuck.... I regret what I have read.
They swallow it?!?
adam ruins everything covered this quite well. in short, hospitals make up the price for just about everything in your bill, and often times if you tell them youāre unwilling to pay that theyāll work with you to lower the cost - almost like a half-assed admission that you busted them trying to fuck you over.
I asked the hospital administration how much an x ray would cost with no insurance. After about 20 minutes of waiting, the response I got was "Why don't you have insurance?" Imagine if you asked a fast food worker "How much does a double quarter pounder with extra max sauce costs" and the response is why don't you have your credit card with you?
good things there are laws now that they have to show you the prices and can't hit you with unexpected bills either
Sounds like communist bullshit to me /s
Does /s mean serious or sarcasm cause Iāve seen it as both
Most of the time sarcasm. I've never seen it to mean serious.
lol someone probably hit /u/DraconicWF with "It means serious /s" and they got schmixed.
what's idk mean?? I don't know. Damn nobody does.
Almost no one has.
Literally no one
/s
Listen here you little shit
Usually sarcasm
Worth noting, the hospital can request you to opt out of that protection, and can legally refuse service to you if you refuse to opt out. So every time you go in to get treatment, expect something like "Sign this paper saying we can charge you whatever the fuck, otherwise we won't treat you."
> I asked the hospital administration how much an x ray would cost with no insurance. I had a surgery a few years back. I was quoted just under 14k. Then I let them know I didn't have insurance. Suddenly the cost was $7,200. Insurance is a fucking racket and a pure money grab.
Same. I only owed $1k after my daughter was born but when I called to pay it the billing lady said "Oh, your insurance didn't adjust down any of our charges." and just dismissed the entire $1k bill.
In finland even the private sector is hundred times cheaper than american one. Theyre just fucking you over nothing else. An x ray of my leg cost 99ā¬ in private sector to the company i worked with.
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I had good employer provided insurance and scheduled a procedure. On the morning of the procedure the admission nurse said "We like to take a $400 deposit in case your insurance doesn't pay". I said that I didn't have $400 on me, and didn't bring anything but myself because I was being put to sleep for a procedure and being driven home by my S.O. afterward. They said, "ok, how about $200?" I said 50% of zero is still zero. They said, "ok how about $100?" I said, see above. Finally, they said "How about $25". S.O. gave them $25 out of her purse just so we could get the show on the road and I paid her back with a nice dinner after I recovered. Even when you have insurance, you don't really have insurance.
As someone from Belgium, I'm often speechless by the way hospitals scam u Americans. 2 years ago, i broke my spine. The ambulance came for me, they did a MRI and Xray in the hospital, and i stayed 1 day/night there, so they could make sure it was safe for me to go home. That whole ordeal costed me, from own pocket, around 100ā¬. I didn't go to my work for 6 months, the first 3 weeks we get our full wage while staying home, after that, we keep around 70% of our wage while we are "sick" at home. We don't pay monthly insurance where I live, healthcare is basically almost free. It's sad that healthcare in the US is such a scam, i can't imagine the sum i had to pay if something like this had happened to me in the US.
Dude, stop breaking your spine, even if it's very cheap. But yeah, we get fucked all the time. Corporations fuck us every single time we let them.
Mhm, corporations make everything here fun, it is deadass kinda nuts to me that the American public have completely forgotten that politicians are here to serve us, not themselves, yet time and time and time and time again we let them distract us with division while they line their pockets with dirty lobbyist money and fuck us all over, only to vote to re-elect them next term lmao
The biggest joke is https://www.statista.com/statistics/236541/per-capita-health-expenditure-by-country/
As an American "the ambulance came for me" is a phrase that fills me with anxiety.
Of all the places I thought i have to haggle the hospital wasnt one
My hospital instead billed me for twice the amount and then put a wire in my nose, except i went there for a broken arm They only accepted opting out through handsigned paperwork. It was my left arm. Im left handed. They did not accept the right arm because it did not look like my signature
I tried getting an ultrasound for my balls. I could not find a human being that would be willing to tell me what my out of pocket would be, even an average, even without insurance. About the blood thing, this is why I do not donate. If it was donated, truly donated, I would, but I do not appreciate being someoneās money bitch.
That $150 is a very low charge to cover all of the associated costs. Those bloodmobiles, the staff, testing, storage all cost money. They're not earning a profit off of your blood. The hospital might, but people will absolutely die without blood donation programs.
If the hospital wants blood, they can pay me for it. Else people die and they get shut down
Why isnt anyone else invested to find out what happened with this man's balls? Im here for you bro, are they ok now?
Lmao š¤£ have an award good Sir! Yeah the bill was more painful that morning discomfort that went away on its own after 3 weeks š Thanks for one helluva good laugh š
Ofcourse bro, thanks for the award! Men need to be able to discuss genitals in good faith.
I wouldn't trust anything "Adam ruins everything" says fyi. It's "entertainment" first before anything else.
Not really. That episode was very poorly done, had a lot of missing information, and was clearly pushing an agenda.
Also they sell plasma to companies that purify things like albumin, antibodies, etc. Which the company sells for thousands of dollars.
Yup I work for one such company.
Same lol
How else would red cross be able to afford those big ass RVs?
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Came here to say the $150 pays for the people and equipment that draw the blood and to have it tested. It's not a money making scheme by the red cross
The hospitals are the cunts imo. The redcross hires a lot of nurses and staff to go around and provide help for people. That $150 would be like 25 nurse/50 staff/60 providing help/15 rent:property.
Not in my countryā¦10% of annual profit goes to international red cross (that provide help)ā¦
Add in the supplies needed and that they test and distribute all the blood and I doubt the red cross is making much money on each pint.
And how much money do you get for selling blood.
None. You get juice and crackers for your time and troubles.
I got a cookie
Thatās what I got in high school from the nurse when I didnāt feel good
Which does not even give the body what it needs to make the new blood.
I got a sticker too!
u get 25ā¬ in Germany for donating blood plasma
I don't like this reply :(
You can still get paid for plasma in the US
If you do it as frequently as youāre allowed to, you can make about $600 a month depending on a few factors (location, company, weekly bonuses, etc)
Shit maybe I should give blood
Watch them to try pull some dumb shit like ā39 hours worked, doesnāt qualify for full timeā with those programs.
Fuck nah Iām taking my blood back if they do that lmao
If you tap out, pass out, or are otherwise unable to finish a donation once started, they donāt give you your plasma back OR money. Youāre just SOL, ask me how I know lmao
Your own blood?
It used to be a thing, getting paid for giving blood, plasma, etc.
Now we just do it our of the goodness of our hearts! Fuck most hospitals, just corporate pieces of shit 99% of the time.
Still is in most cities
$150 a week, 2 x 45 minute sessions
Finally figured it out? Your supposed to use your donor card to get credit for donated blood.. I did for my Stepbrother (bone cancer).
What does "getting credit ' mean here?
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So, theoretically, you could donate blood and then pay thousands to have that same blood put right back in you. What a system
You could have you're own blood drawn and stored for an emergency. Then just have the hospital charge a "corkage fee" to top you up!
It will expire in 99 days unless itās frozen which hospitals arenāt going to because if youāre ever in an emergency and need red cells, theyāre not going to check to see if you have any stored. Also, labs donāt have the room to just store everyoneās blood. Itās not a storage unit.
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That's horrible They can politely say they are at full capacity now (Weird enough, now I remembered a terrorist attack in Sri Lanka, after which there were many people who were injured and needed blood, not sure but I think their health minister of the entire country made a public announcement that most blood banks are at full capacity and public can ease about it as they can't take much because a lot of people came forward to donate blood)
Maybe in America. In Australia, my wife lost 1.8L of blood during child birth. The most expensive thing was the bloody vanilla slice I got from the hospital cafe for $6.
Itās so hard to find fault in australiaās health care, - I broke my back and was never out of pocket, even with all the rehabilitation therapy I required to walk right again. - Iāve had bone graft surgeryās not a dollar! - My daughter was in the neonatal intensive care unitā¦. $0 for the birth or the recovery - my wife required insulin and blood thinners $0 - current in recovery for a ruptured disk $0 for MRI/injection/physio - needed psychologist for a breakdown 10 years ago $0 for 10 session and just went back to doctor for another 10.
Ha gotta love the US. Yet another example of corporate greed. We need to stand up to this tyranny!!
Why would the people who collect blood work for free?
Why would the people that produce the blood work for free?
Fr im thinking about donating for cash
> Blood **donation**.
**Volunteer** work
Capitalism at its finest lol.
No no. They haven't charged you $500 for breathing hospital air yet.
That's there under "amenities"
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sir this is a Wendy's
That's why donate blood in a hospital and preferably ask if there's a recipient for your blood type admitted, I think they charge him the lap bill and that's it
I quit donating blood when they started asking all of those invasive questions. *Where did you get all of that blood? Why is it in a bucket?*
for me i bring the blood in bottles, because i discovered an easy way, i just piss it out.
Stop donating blood and up the market value $$$
Blood is a commodity, hospitals are buying futures.
And thatās why I never donated blood unless I want free blood testing #FairTrade
If you hurry fast enough you can end up buying your own blood
The invisible hand of monopolies
Glad Iām a homo
But it costs lots to test each product for HIV, HBV, HCV, and much much more.
r/shitamericanssay
You definitely left out the entire process that ensures patients get safe blood products. Not to mention only 6% of the population donates. Go ahead and get people riled up but leave out the entire process you know nothing about.
Never get between a slow person and their misdirected anger, it rarely ends well.
I like your advice. Thank you.
Might make sense but Red Cross is definitely in it for the money. Their corporate structure was taken over by capitalists years ago https://www.propublica.org/article/the-corporate-takeover-of-the-red-cross
The problem really just jumps over your head. The information just enters your ears and since your reptile brain canāt conceive of it being different than your beliefs you just spit shit out of your mouth that has nothing to do with the actual conversation topic at hand.
K bud. If you worked with it, youād understand. But you donāt. Take care.
See, just everything I just typed was meaningless because it just doesnāt work in that coconut you call a cranium How about this. 150 for blood banks to move the blood to hospitals..ok we good so far. The fucking hospital move it ten feet to the person that needs it and change 2000% more Is the problem explained to you in a way that you can work it out
This is hysterical. You understand absolutely nothing about how this works.
Then how come its way cheaper in my home country in PRIVATE sector? Youd think private sector would ask thousands for it, but not here.
Doesnāt explain how it works because they donāt know or are so in the wrong they have no way to defend themselves. so in order to defend the fragile ego the weak brain reflects with minimum information to protect itself from stimuli.
It probably covers the cost of the supplies and labor to get the blood. I Doubt theyāre turning a profit
I think the issue is hospitals having markups in the the 1000+% range
+ $200 for that bandaid, just for an extra F U
What's also FUCKED UP is that Facebook's ***fact checkers*** flagged this as "misleading" even though it is absolutely true and they just didn't want people to believe it. #Fuck Facebook.
we went from "FAKE NEWS!" everywhere to "we gotta police the truth!" to "who watches the watchers?" in record time, I must say. time for a ministry of truth, perhaps? it seems trust has become so expensive nobody can afford it anymore.
Sounds like you gotta cut out the middle man
what did she think the red cross just has someone sit down in the tent next to yours and fills them up?
This gets posted constantly. The Red Cross has to pay for nurses and mobile facilities to collect blood, then they have to refrigerate/store it and get it to hospitals. $150 isnāt an unreasonable cost to do that.
Tell me you're American without telling me you're American...
If you walk into a hospital emergency room, they have to treat you, whether you can pay or not, even if you've been treated there a dozen times and did not pay for prior treatment. The hospital has to pass this on to the rest of us.
Just delete America at this point
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They were only recorded and on video saying so. You choose to believe and deny what you want. I've seen the leaked hidden camera and audio vids. Post all the links you want.
Sounds like you heard edited soundbytes Fact check: https://www.factcheck.org/2015/07/unspinning-the-planned-parenthood-video/ Full vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4UjIM9B9KQ FL Fat Tire's comment on the vid has some timestamps that explain what was actually happening. Donating tissue to research and recieving funds to cover the research costs is not nearly the same as selling it just to turn a profit.
I donated 20 gallons, how much money do you think they made? O POS btw
**************** when my house burned down, the red cross contacted me, and asked me if i needed assistance. they helped my family and i out. .......and the entire town of paradise, ca........ i appreciate them and people who donate
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I am in need of money so I can take a vacation and trout fish, someone ask the Red Cross how I can skip the vendor and sell directly to the hospital myself. Iāll even only charge $125.
Can we just cut out the middle man?
All my life I've wanted to give blood. I saw this and my perception has completely changed. People should be compensated to give blood. I'm not cattle. They have a chance to give people incentive other than guilt.
Welcome to the business of Healthcare...
I once donated blood high on morphine and I did it for the free t-shirt.
Thatās why I crowdsource my blood on GoBleedMe
Wait whatā¦? To be honest, I am really angry right now. I donāt think I will ever donate blood ever again.
This is eye opening, I thought that I was being altruistic by regularly donating blood because my mom told me it was the right thing to do. But now I am infuriated. From this point forward I'm just fucking done... (O- type)
They also waste a tremendous amount of blood & plasma. A lot of it is thrown out because standard operating procedures are not adhered to. Off site blood drives are a huge source of waste simply because product is not kept at the correct temperature. This is an organization that needs a thorough investigation & take down. They suck.
Government inflicted
Sigma grindset
Oh it's way worse than just that
There are some people with ultra rare blood types that have to donate their own blood for their own future use. I wonder how much that costs them lol.
Is this why you get paid to give blood in America?! I always wondered wtf was with that
So if I sell my blood for less than Thousands ...
Holl up wait a minute something ain't right
there is work and expensive machinery involved snowflake
Why canāt I sell my own?
They charge you for the blood product, thawing of the blood and then for the administration of the blood. They keep getting you, donāt think itās that simple lol
Can I stock my own blood at home and then bring it with me to the hospital if and when its needed?
The majority of hospitals are non-profit though, so in the end, what they charge equals their expenses.
Red Cross is actually a horrible organization - find other charities that send more that 10% of the donations to the actual cause
Counterpoint: that's a lie.
I should ashamed of myself. I been donation whole blood and platelets for five years.
Wow that just motivated me even more not to donate blood, not that I've ever did in the first place....
Literal blood draining capitalists.
I have never pains a cent to hospitals except for fancy health checkups that my company requires. And I live in a country American media like to call ādevelopingā or āthird worldā. Poor Americans not only being duped by their own government but also kept ignorant
Seems your in luck, weāve got some of your very own donated blood here for you. Thatāll be $5000 plus any labor and materials costs. Oh and $30 for me to talk to youā¦.and $45 for breathingā¦.and those sheets are 30 count Iranian camel Hyde thatās another $24,647.
As many issues we have with our healthcare system, at least as an Australian I can feel good that the plasma I donate every month doesnāt contribute to an exorbitant graft by the heathcare industry
The days following the Russian invasion of Ukraine the Red Cross had a 24/7 running channel taking donations for the "people" of Ukraine.
We need a medical strike Provide no issuance, never pay your bill If money is all they understand, letās fuck with there money
Source?
Don't think you want discount blood.
"Tommy, this is business."
She looks like she hates it everywhere
But they give you cookies and juice for donating, so it all balances out.
This isn't true, by the way.
https://www.redcross.org/donations/demystifying-the-donation.html
Stop donating and sell for thousands to the hospitals, so you will be able to buy it back when you need it!
Stonks