Dear armchairs, charitable organisations claim that paying for blood donations could worsen the situation because it mostly attracts people from high risk groups (junkies etc.)and those who donate blood are people with a low risk of "poor blood quality". But otherwise there is a lack of supply of blood because a lot of people have not enough incentives to donate blood because of high opportunity costs of time and maybe fear of pain and health problems. Do you imagine solutions to attract more donors without select people with low "blood quality"? My take: Maybe suppliers of blood products could pay firms for attracting workers or health insurance companies to give insurants incentives to donate blood? At present german red cross germany has a campaign to attract donors with a whopper menu. I dont belief that it is enough to attract donors with a ordinary wage rate. And maybe this attracts risky people more than healthy donors. What is the situation in the USA? Are there better solutions?
Greetings from Germany Steffen
