Friday, April 20, 2018

Paid blood donations?

https://www.statnews.com

The economic principle i will be focusing on is that people generally respond to incentives in predictable ways. My research question is "Should be allowed to pay others for blood donations?" The article i will be using was published by Elizabeth Preston to STAT. com which is titled "Why you get paid to donate plasma but not blood."  I feel this will help my research question because Preston  into detail of why it's allowed to donate plasma and get paid but not for blood donations and whether or not it's the right thing to do. 

Blood donors shouldn't be paid because it would cause incentives for people to only donate for the money not for the goodness in their hearts. Also blood donors aren't paid because unlike plasma it's not broken down into blood cells and and other components and those are often compensated for the donations. Blood is usually just put into the patient without breaking anything down. This can cause people who are ineligible to donate blood to lie and give blood that can cause viruses and diseases to other patients receiving their blood. Although, there is a system to always test blood donations that are received to make sure they are safe to use.  Plasma since it is broken down never goes through a patient with a needle usually through medications like pharmaceuticals and during the process viruses and bad toxins are eliminated from that plasma, but with blood you can't eliminate diseases and impurities. Whole blood cells are too sensitive to undergo the same process like plasma cells and would fall apart, so testing blood that way for now is impossible. So with this information my next research question will discuss "How should we get more blood donations without using money as an incentive?"









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