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It does depend on politics, the USA being on of the few countries that allows payment for plasma is result of politics, to the degree that blood products make u
by Avshalom 1y ago
It does depend on politics, the USA being on of the few countries that allows payment for plasma is result of politics, to the degree that blood products make up ~3% of US exports.
Like yeah, I give (double red) blood as often as I am able because, well civic duty and all but it's still real fucked.
- hombre_fatal 1y agoTrue. But what I mean is that cash handouts are a constant contentious political battleground that feels like a pipe dream where I live while selling plasma was a political decision made before we arrived and probably not something most people feel quite as strongly about. The danger as I see it is that we can let perfect be the enemy of good, though I suppose you aren't suggesting that it's bad that people have the option to sell their plasma as everything currently stands. I do see it better than the alternative of prohibiting it.