When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?

Na, the sign says this is Canada

I was going to say.
I mean, there's a good chance they might wait a while in triage and parking can be expensive, but that's really about it.

No, because I don't live in america and the country I'm in does fairly well with healthcare and other social areas

- It does narrow out America, at least.

Lol no, I live in a civilised country that doesn't do that kind of barbaric shit to people.

I don't mean to be horrible but you should be mad. Just, not at me because i didn't do this to you and, if i could, I'd change it in a heartbeat.

You deserve better.

All of you.

So this letter board is clearly advertising Canadian blood services. Canada's healthcare system could use a lot of work, but it is far from the dumpster fire that American healthcare is.

If you want to shitpost about this and assume as Americans do that America is the only place, maybe try to find an image that isn't so obviously from a country with universal healthcare.

Yup in America we donate the blood to hospitals that sell the blood.. So why can't we deduct blood donations for their monetary value on tax forms?
- in America you donate blood for free, and your blood gets sold to the hospitals for 100-400 dollars. then the hospitals charge the patients who receive it even more than that.
- In my country you get a day off on top of being paid for your blood donation, I think you get some tax benefits on top of that too.

No, because I'm Canadian and our healthcare system actually cares about us. When I donate blood I know that it's going to a person that needs it and they they won't be saddled with debt for the rest of their life.

Our healthcare system cares about us, but (depending on province) our politicians don’t care about funding it properly.
- Which province currently cares because I can't think of any in Eastern Canada

Try having O Negative. I mean, I get it. My blood can be given to anyone regardless of their blood type. But the people who do the followup calls need to chill a little bit. Don't worry, I'm going to donate again.you don't have to call me every other day to remind me.

I've lived around and have donated to blood banks in every city I've lived in pretty much. The amount of calls I get asking for me to donate is absolutely insane. They don't stop no matter what I do. I'm getting calls from places in states I haven't lived in for like a decade.
I'm pretty sure if I ever went missing or got kidnapped at this point, the blood banks would track me down and beg me to donate way before my family or the police.
- Maybe don't give them your phone number?
O− here too. I’d he super stoked to get those kinds of calls and I’d feel like a hero. I even signed up for the bone marrow registry who I was told reach out to you if you’re a match they need. Crickets. ¯(ツ)_/¯
I've been offered a points card where I can redeem mugs and T-Shirts and I was like "nah I'm good I'm not here for mugs."

no, but i live in a real, civilized place, not the barbarian hinterlands of america

The picture is of Canada, strangely enough.

No because I live in a sane country (well, kinda... but the NHS is still free, and will remain so assuming the tories don't get back in next election)

If it makes you feel better they're trying to privatise healthcare here in Canada too.
- It does not (without great cost)

Canadian blood services

So, little to no cost.

American blood services

Will suck the blood out of the patient and leave them bankrupt.

Are we certain that the people running healthcare institutions in the US aren't vampires?
- Definitely blood suckers.

Lol NO. Where I live we actually HELP people who need medical attention for free. Health care is included in our society. You can be in hospital for a month and will only get a bill somewhere between zero and a few hundred euros, and that will only be for some extras that you used during your stay. like cable tv or wifi or extra meals and such things

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD

SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE

No, I'm German

Idk it depends, I got billed close to 1000€ by German healthcare after damaging a ligament despite me having a valid EHIC because "you're not a German resident so you have to pay", it took forever dealing with my own healthcare system who refunded me and I assume chased it up with your system, but still they're a bunch of scammers

Damn draculas

Lordy with ma hand upon the bible swear I shot the damn devil not a bitch but the popo don't give a shit.

I didn't think of their hospital bill, but last time I donated, the blood was used in Alabama, several states away. I hope the person getting my blood either got injured doing something very heroic or very funny.

You get notified of that?
That sounds really cool, and a total privacy nightmare
- I got notified in which state, and that's all. No personal identifiers, no reason why, not even the city. Just Alabama.

Khorne cares not from whence the Blood flows, only that it flows forever and without cease!

Donate anyway. It saves a life. The bills can go unpaid for that person, but without your blood donation they could die. Dying is worse than an unpaid medical bill. Some generous billionaire could come along one day and pay off huge medical debts for patients, on a whim. Some billionaire can’t bring your dead body back to life.

Some generous billionaire could come along one day and pay off huge medical debts for patients, on a whim.
Go on then, pull the other one.
- It happens:
  https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2023-07-30/billionaires-pay-264-million-in-medical-debt-for-miami-dade-residents
Better to live a slave than die?
Weird, we have different perspectives on that.
- Are you saying that you have so much medical debt that you’re a slave to it? Blood transfusion costs a patient about $250 on average. High rent, rising gasoline prices, and inflation on cost of food makes you a slave. A $250 blood transfusion doesn’t make you a slave, especially when you live in a state that requires you to have health coverage and offers you free state medical insurance if you can’t afford anything else. If you’re going to complain about the high cost of medical care, please complain about MRI costs, without medical insurance, in a state that won’t cover you. I once paid $8000 for an abdominal MRI while out of state. It took me years to pay it off. That, you can complain about, or perhaps the fact that they expected me to return six months later for another one (which I didn’t). You shouldn’t complain about the cost of a blood transfusion that you may never need. Heck, you’re lucky if they have your blood type. I bled out in the hospital in 2012, and no one there had my blood type. There were no pints available for me. They let me lay in a hospital room with a hemoglobin level of 4, waiting for me to regain consciousness. I had to pay the medical bill for using their room to recover! Be mad about that.

Nop I think about who may be gets it but not about the Bill because we have a fucking state run health system im Germany.

Hi Germany, I'm Dad
- Hi Dad, I'm from German

No because that image is from Canada

Where I live they ask for donations then charge for the blood to the patient. This is why I don't donate blood.

That's a terrible reason. You would rather a patient in need not have blood available than be charged for it?
There is definitely price gouging in blood. But it also requires testing, transportation, and storage before it can be used. The money for all that has to come from somewhere (unfortunately in the US it's usually the patient).
- I'm aware. But making the blood also costs calories food, time of donation exct. I get it's not free on their end, but they are not paying me either. I'm asking for them to return the exact same favor and do it for free for the person who needs it.

What's a hospital bill?

no because i'm banned from donating blood as an american gay man with a (barely) active sex life

Nope never have. There are simply too many possible outcomes to contemplate

I don't donate, I'm phobic of needles and I disagree with the commercialization of the industry. The fact that my blood likely won't be used by someone who needs it and instead will be up charged to the highest bidder sickens me.

I am not allowed to donate blood because I lived in the England in the 80s

No, I only focus on not passing out and wondering if the bag is warm. If they are in a situation where they need a transfusion it will most likely be covered as an emergency. I miss donating blood, they used to give me a stress ball as a gift every time I went, I had to stop recieving them after the drawer I was keeping them in couldn't hold any more.