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[1991-C4]

It makes me sick to think that I can't sell my own blood, but I can give it to the Red Cross that then sells it to a hospital that then adds on more costs until the person that needed it ends up paying $75 to $100 a pint for something I gave for free.

Of course the Red Cross's record is far from pristine, but they have a pretty good track record of selling "clean" blood. When they sell it, they guarantee the blood type, when it was drawn, how long it has been stored and how and that the blood is free from disease or contaminants that could potentially harm the recipient. Can you make the same claim?

This is also how they raise money so they can help people in distress and not charge them for their services.

 

[thomas998]

Of course the Red Cross's record is far from pristine, but they have a pretty good track record of selling "clean" blood. When they sell it, they guarantee the blood type, when it was drawn, how long it has been stored and how and that the blood is free from disease or contaminants that could potentially harm the recipient. Can you make the same claim?

This is also how they raise money so they can help people in distress and not charge them for their services.

There track record of selling "clean" blood isn't based on the fact that they get the blood for free. If you allowed buying and selling of blood I'm quite sure that companies would pop up that could do the same job for a lower cost and provide the same quality of product. Other companies that would buy and sell blood wouldn't waste money trying to help people that had their houses flooded because they were stupid enough to live in a flood plain... The red cross has a history of using its monopoly to generate funds to pay for people's stupidity under the guise of help.