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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:08 PM Original message |
How much money does the medical industry get when you donate an organ? |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. They get a ton |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Well fuck them. I'll sign an organ donor card when they provide decent universal health care |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. You have garnered a rare unrec from me |
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Abq_Sarah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. There is a point |
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XemaSab (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:13 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. The donor is dead and the recipient gets to live |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:14 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Sorry. We gotta starve the beast here. |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
22. Well, as an awaiting recipient*, let me just say-- |
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ORDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:25 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Yep. I'm with JVS on this one. |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:36 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Absolutely incorrect. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. They put a dollar amount on it, not me. They just expect me to pony up raw material for them.. |
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RUMMYisFROSTED (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
6. Answers: |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
9. It's a good thing to help a fellow human with an organ that you |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:15 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's a good thing to help a fellow human with medical care, even if they're poor. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
11. Hell, even blood is a goldmine for the parasites. n/t |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
12. I would rather give someone undeserved profit to save a life |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:23 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. If you consider not donating to be killing somone, then I lay at your feet the ongoing deaths.. |
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DireStrike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. I don't really see how you can justify that claim. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. It's as justifiable as your claim that refusing to donate is killing. |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:31 PM Response to Original message |
15. Less than they do for keeping you on life support in an ICU. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. It seems those scumbag piece of shit doctors and administrators have truly rigged the game so that.. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Deleted message |
Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:33 PM Response to Reply #16 |
27. As I stated previously in the deleted message, 1. 90% of doctors are not "scumbag pieces of shit" |
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Zoeisright (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
17. Wow, that's really cold. |
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PeaceNikki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:18 PM Response to Original message |
23. Cynical much? |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. Then don't donate. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:23 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. More over he/she nor any of their immediate family should accept a donated organ |
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Barack_America (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 07:00 PM Response to Reply #25 |
30. Very true. It costs far more to receive an organ than to donate. |
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ProgressiveProfessor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-17-10 10:45 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. I am taking it as a moral position, not a financial one |
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w8liftinglady (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:32 PM Response to Original message |
26. Having worked as a pre- and post-op lung transplant nurse for years... |
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Obamanaut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:34 PM Response to Original message |
28. I am healthy. I carry a donor card. It is also on my driver license. My |
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pinto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-16-10 06:41 PM Response to Original message |
29. I'm in a situation where I can't donate an organ or blood. But I would if I could. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-20-10 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
32. .. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-20-10 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
33. I can't affort to donate an organ, they will have to be satisfied with |
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