When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be?

Na, the sign says this is Canada

I was going to say.
I mean, there's a good chance they might wait a while in triage and parking can be expensive, but that's really about it.

No, because I don't live in america and the country I'm in does fairly well with healthcare and other social areas

- It does narrow out America, at least.

So this letter board is clearly advertising Canadian blood services. Canada's healthcare system could use a lot of work, but it is far from the dumpster fire that American healthcare is.

If you want to shitpost about this and assume as Americans do that America is the only place, maybe try to find an image that isn't so obviously from a country with universal healthcare.

Lol no, I live in a civilised country that doesn't do that kind of barbaric shit to people.

I don't mean to be horrible but you should be mad. Just, not at me because i didn't do this to you and, if i could, I'd change it in a heartbeat.

You deserve better.

All of you.

Try having O Negative. I mean, I get it. My blood can be given to anyone regardless of their blood type. But the people who do the followup calls need to chill a little bit. Don't worry, I'm going to donate again.you don't have to call me every other day to remind me.

I've lived around and have donated to blood banks in every city I've lived in pretty much. The amount of calls I get asking for me to donate is absolutely insane. They don't stop no matter what I do. I'm getting calls from places in states I haven't lived in for like a decade.
I'm pretty sure if I ever went missing or got kidnapped at this point, the blood banks would track me down and beg me to donate way before my family or the police.

No because I live in a sane country (well, kinda... but the NHS is still free, and will remain so assuming the tories don't get back in next election)

If it makes you feel better they're trying to privatise healthcare here in Canada too.

Where I live they ask for donations then charge for the blood to the patient. This is why I don't donate blood.

That's a terrible reason. You would rather a patient in need not have blood available than be charged for it?
There is definitely price gouging in blood. But it also requires testing, transportation, and storage before it can be used. The money for all that has to come from somewhere (unfortunately in the US it's usually the patient).
- I'm aware. But making the blood also costs calories food, time of donation exct. I get it's not free on their end, but they are not paying me either. I'm asking for them to return the exact same favor and do it for free for the person who needs it.

Donate anyway. It saves a life. The bills can go unpaid for that person, but without your blood donation they could die. Dying is worse than an unpaid medical bill. Some generous billionaire could come along one day and pay off huge medical debts for patients, on a whim. Some billionaire can’t bring your dead body back to life.

Better to live a slave than die?
Weird, we have different perspectives on that.
- Are you saying that you have so much medical debt that you’re a slave to it? Blood transfusion costs a patient about $250 on average. High rent, rising gasoline prices, and inflation on cost of food makes you a slave. A $250 blood transfusion doesn’t make you a slave, especially when you live in a state that requires you to have health coverage and offers you free state medical insurance if you can’t afford anything else. If you’re going to complain about the high cost of medical care, please complain about MRI costs, without medical insurance, in a state that won’t cover you. I once paid $8000 for an abdominal MRI while out of state. It took me years to pay it off. That, you can complain about, or perhaps the fact that they expected me to return six months later for another one (which I didn’t). You shouldn’t complain about the cost of a blood transfusion that you may never need. Heck, you’re lucky if they have your blood type. I bled out in the hospital in 2012, and no one there had my blood type. There were no pints available for me. They let me lay in a hospital room with a hemoglobin level of 4, waiting for me to regain consciousness. I had to pay the medical bill for using their room to recover! Be mad about that.

No, I'm German

Nop I think about who may be gets it but not about the Bill because we have a fucking state run health system im Germany.