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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (93314)	8/10/2012 11:55:17 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219959

Blood-letting feels good if suffering haemochromatosis [too much iron in blood]. <Gave blood today for first time in a long time.. felt good. > But how does it feel good otherwise? You do know it is not given away [other than by you]. Doctors capture the value of your donation because when they price their services, it's on a "what the market will bear" basis. They charge as much for their services as the patients will pay [via their insurance companies sometimes]. It's not a cost-plus contract that patients have with doctors. Similarly, with organ donation. The patient has to pay what the market will bear. There is an unseemly fight [albeit with some rules to keep the grasping for cash not too undignified] to get hold of organs. Hospitals perhaps bid for fatal road crash victims to be delivered to their emergency rooms to be "saved" to increase their chances of keeping possession of the deceased person's organs to cash in on the high profits. People should sell their bits and pieces on the open market. It's absurd that the only person to get no benefit is the person donating the organs/blood. The rest get cash or use of the organ/blood. A road crash victim might have a wife and young children who could benefit from the cash obtained from their beloved's parts but the medical "ethics" people want to keep that money for themselves so insist that no money should change hands "Heh, heh, heh, cackle, cackle but of course WE will be paid a fortune to do the transfer." The hospital, ambulance driver, nurses, paperwork people, doctors and government taxation people all get paid what the market will bear to do the actual transfer, but the young wife and children whose motorcyclist Dad is dead get nothing. Go medical "ethics". He was probably riding a motorbike because he couldn't afford a car and petrol due to high taxes to fund the medical industry, and the roads provided by the government spivs were so inadequate and badly managed. There is some karma there though because the dead motorcyclist likely voted for the politicians who set the rules. Mqurice