[–] obvious-throwaway- 0 points 14 points 14 points (+14|-0) ago
[–] Jungle_Jim 0 points 8 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago
Haha after a few replies, they just resorted to a copy/paste for these fucking idiots.
[–] ThirteenthZodiac 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
I'm surprised that whoever was running the account had the balls to say that ethnic background matters.
I still remember in A&P, getting told that race had no impact on health. So I asked about sickle cell anemia, and was immediately shut down by the professor. This was long before I started examining my political beliefs more closely, so it was purely for the sake of identifying differences for medical purposes - but nope, that's apparently not allowed.
[–] MDE_ALWAYS_LIVES [S] 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I've been blindsided so many times trying to have conversations that were even just tangentially related to race and seeing people react in completely nonsensical ways.
It's just a disturbing feeling when you don't know what it is.
Like when some black person's accomplishment is over-hyped beyond all reason or their misdeed underplayed or a white's misdeed exaggerated. Morality is suddenly flipped and nobody tells you what the new rules are. And even asking about the strangeness of the interaction is treated as hostility.
[–] HungryCrow 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Lol at this post being in /v/whitepills.
[–] Octocopter 0 points 20 points 20 points (+20|-0) ago
If they paid for it rather than just taking donations more non-whites would do it.
[–] MDE_ALWAYS_LIVES [S] 0 points 17 points 17 points (+17|-0) ago
They'd just complain that the amount isn't high enough to pay their rent for eternity.
[–] Octocopter 0 points 10 points 10 points (+10|-0) ago
Or complain that the racist doctors don't want drug addicts who only wanted to get the cash to buy a rock.
[–] carlip 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago
this is a good idea. For instance, Medicad pays over $70,000 a year for people on kidney dialysis. The government could offer a program where people could sell a kidney for $50,000, paid by Medicad. Thus saving the tax payers $20,000 in the first year alone and $70,000 for every year the patient lives after the donation. The donor would then have $50,000 to spend which would right back into the economy.
[–] lustig1374 1 point 8 points 9 points (+9|-1) ago
This seems like a good idea on paper, but it would lead to organ theft.
[–] dangerous_ai ago (edited ago)
Why should I sacrifice my own kidney for less than a single year of someone else's dialysis cost? I'm giving up my second kidney for the rest of my life. They're likely going to use it for longer than a year. No, sir. My kidneys are only for family members unless I'm a vegetable.
Edit: apparently, a kidney is worth about $260k on the black market. The 90% survival rate for a kidney transplant is 15 years. I figure the fair market value for a kidney is therefore somewhere between $260k and $2.5M, not $50k. Being a living kidney donor is not harmless, either. Incidence of mild renal failure, hypertension, proteinuria (protein in your urine) and cardiovascular disease is higher in living kidney donors.
[–] Blacksdonttip 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
What would the market rate per pint of HIV+ and herpes tainted blood be? That's probably the best case scenario, though I guess it doesn't matter much since the recipient is likely infected too.
[–] Dalai_Llama ago
Blood donaion is a for-profit industry.
Here is a list of transplant related billing codes.
I doubt anyone would assist in organ harvesting if there wasn't any money to be made. The donors are getting shafted out-right.