51–60 of 80 posts
In the meantime people who need transfusions because they have kidney failure they might have a hard time getting them.
...now grab the popcorn and see how the people against free healthcare is going to rationalize a defense for this.
Putting aside the ookiness factor, the science here seems pretty tenuous. "Self-reported improvements that scientists have been unable to replicate in clinical trials" are what's behind every questionable medical practice from homepathy to crystal healing. Especially given the time and money involved in having to get regular transfusions, I'd think the practitioners would be better off using the time to spend an extr…
They buy the blood from blood banks, so people donating blood don't know it's going to paranoid rich people instead of sick people, and they don't get any of the money! Edit: I thought it was illegal in the USA to pay for body parts, but there is an exception for plasma (and maybe the rest of the blood?). But it's already predatory http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/business/06plasma.html and this new business only ma…
There's a concept in economics whereby the gains from trade tend to accumulate to the owners of "fixed resources" in a system. In this case that would be the people selling the blood. So I would expect that in the long run the market would stabilize with people selling their blood getting paid the full worth of their blood (decreased by transaction costs of all the middlemen involved in getting the blood to other peo…
The problem is abetting those desperate to sell their blood and body parts are going to be abetting the downward spiral such people tend to be on. The most blood donors are homeless and drug addicts. Donating blood doesn't make someone more able to find a job, housing etc because it's a literal drain on their vitality.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right, I'd be curious what the deal is here. Are they buying blood or plasma? Are the donors compensated? Or do they think they are helping burn victims and end up helping Covfefe supporters? I've long that people should be allowed to profit from selling their bodies /organs to medicine (especially after they die -- ie selling options), but it seems that only others can profit from your donation for the most part.
"So high-schoolers donating their blood are not aware that it might be used on healthy adults." http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/blood-transfusions-from-teena... Really it's the lack of transparency and the payment imbalance that concern me.
If I donate to earthquake victims, I expect at least a portion of my donation to end up in the hands of earthquake victims.
If I donate whole blood to help those with medical needs, then I expect at least a portion of my donation to end up in the bloodsteam of someone with a genuine medical need.
The US has outlawed paid whole blood donations, so EVERY whole blood donation in the US is an act of charity.
...and now it's lucrative pseudo science. sigh. maybe if they find the director he can be their very own hon Hubbard!
Earlier quoted context omitted.
"So high-schoolers donating their blood are not aware that it might be used on healthy adults." http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/blood-transfusions-from-teena... Really it's the lack of transparency and the payment imbalance that concern me.
How is this not charity fraud? If I donate to earthquake victims, I expect at least a portion of my donation to end up in the hands of earthquake victims. If I donate whole blood to help those with medical needs, then I expect at least a portion of my donation to end up in the bloodsteam of someone with a genuine medical need. The US has outlawed paid whole blood donations, so EVERY whole blood donation in the US is…
It'd be interesting to see what Ambrosia told the blood banks though.
I love that, true to form for the U.S.'s peculiar flavor of capitalism, the producers can't legally sell their product, but those who receive the donations can, leading to a company whose value-add is apparently advertising and customer service creating yet another creepy service for rich paranoids. Think I'll be checking with the place I occasionally donate to and see where theirs ends up. If they need money, they c…
reselling what I thought was going to hospitals, etc. to these literal vampires is not, ah, kosher with me. Ok so... blood does have an expiration date, at which point the blood banks must throw it out. If the supply of donated blood is less than the demand of patients for the blood, then what's wrong with a company recouping their costs by selling almost expired blood to millionaires who don't need it? It didn't say…
And if there are more rich paranoids than I think and there is real demand for this, what do you want to bet on the expiry date creeping back or similar shenanigans?
Who knew that Countess Bathory was a visionary entrepreneur?
This is another one of those things that makes me fear that open class warfare is imminent, with torches, pitchforks, guillotines, and all the accessories.
Consider in IVIG treatments that thousands of plasma donations are needed to make a SINGLE treatment dose and most people receiving these treatments have chronic diseases requiring ongoing treatment, so for just a single patient for one year you are talking about in excess of 10,000 donations needed.
But hey; lets just sell it all to the Peter Thiels of the world so we can keep them alive forever...