Reply #24: believe what you want to believe [View All]

[Orangepeel]

people certainly have a right not to give blood for whatever reason. But, as fortyfeetunder points out, people aren't charged for the blood. They are charged the cost of obtaining, storing, protecting, etc. the blood.

I do think that people should get to accumulate credit for blood donation that would later offset charges for blood should they need it (similar to the way that someone giving blood in a hospital can designate credit for someone in the hospital who needs blood). Nowadays, blood banks have the record keeping and data storage skills to keep such records.