It's not purely a for-profit problem, though; the UK had its own disaster which is still inadequately addressed: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45654783
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infected_blood_scandal_(France...
Even if it was in the public health system, there's still money to be made around such products.
Plasma is an industry there.
Meanwhile, in Canada, we’re steadfast against paid donations. But the volunteer model doesn’t generate enough blood products, so we have to import from the US too.
Edit: I had said 3%, but it’s 1.3%. Still a lot in the grand scheme of things.
Steadfast against paid donations, but yet willing to import paid-donation blood? Wouldn't it be better to regulate your own for-profit blood donation system than it is to trust that the US (or any other country) is doing things the way you want?
I suppose the idea is that discouraging it domestically will eventually catch up to the demand. But if you allow prostituting of blood domestically you'll never get there?
The countries that do paid plasma donations end up supplying (and profiting from) countries with only volunteer plasma donor systems.