Middle class Americans are selling plasma to make ends meet

[pickles]

This has got to be the saddest thing ever. America is cooked.




On a recent Thursday morning, Jill Chamberlain, 57, arrived at a Kedplasma center in a Phoenix shopping center at 6:40 a.m. so she could be among the first in line when the doors opened. She was hoping to have enough time to sell her plasma before going to her full-time job doing administrative work for a local school district. As she waited in the cold, dark parking lot, nine other people joined her, and soon after opening, the waiting area was mostly full.

It’s a place she never would have expected to be two years ago, before losing her job, when she was living comfortably in a four-bedroom home with a pool in Scottsdale, Arizona, and vacationing in Tokyo. Now, she’s counting on the money from her plasma to pay this month’s electric bill. If she sells her plasma twice a week, she can make at least $400 a month.

Chamberlain said the process has taken a toll. Recently, she said an employee improperly inserted the needle twice, leaving her with large bruises on her arms. Even when the needle is inserted properly, she said it is still painful, and when the anti-clotting agent is injected, she shivers uncontrollably.

Middle-class Americans are selling their plasma to make ends meet

Last year, people in the U.S. made an estimated $4.7 billion selling their plasma. Donation centers are popping up in middle-class neighborhoods, including suburban strip malls and college towns.

www.nbcnews.com

This is what one of the comments in the youtube video said.


I get paid $30 per donation which is 880 mL collected. They sell this one bottle to a processing location in germany for $1000 per 1 bottles. This means the donators are getting approximately 3% for what is being extracted from them. You get a total of about $3000/yr if you don't miss ANY donations.This is robbery. Not to mention when the center does something like blowing your vein and you can't donate for 2 weeks, then you lose any bonus you may have accumulated as well as 2 weeks worth of income. (4 donations=$120) They refuse to reimburse you for their mistakes in injuring you and you are left scrambling. They need to be held accountable. They aren't paying for peoples time as the pay changes on how much plasma they collect from you.

 

[sayyestothis]

People need skill sets. There's gonna be a shyt ton of consolidation over the next year. Way to many corporations have too much bloat. When ppl can work from home, take week long vacations, take pertunity leave for a month it means there are too many employees

 

[boogers]

poor people have been selling their plasma and other forms of their life force for generations lol

am i supposed to feel sympathetic for Cody and Jennifer now?***

the fact that companies like biolife/CSL arent illegal in america really says it all

edit: ***i sold mine back in the day, i wasnt shytting on anyone lol

 

[ORDER_66]

$30 per donation but they get $1000 per bottle when its processed?!!? man sounds like a fukking rip off to me..

 

[Apprentice]

Is this different from donating plasma? Ik people who do that for 100

 

[CopiousX]

This is what one of the comments in the youtube video said.


I get paid $30 per donation which is 880 mL collected. They sell this one bottle to a processing location in germany for $1000 per 1 bottles. This means the donators are getting approximately 3% for what is being extracted from them. You get a total of about $3000/yr if you don't miss ANY donations.This is robbery.

$30 per donation but they get $1000 per bottle when its processed?!!? man sounds like a fukking rip off to me..

This is horribly innaccurate. that's not how the industry works at all. That youtube poster is uneducated in basic corporate structuring.


The overhead is massive for this industry because of all the Federal regulation. The processing location in Germany is owned by the exact same entity that has the plasma center. They must be vertically integrated to make the business model work. That $1,000 is not profit. It's the amount of money that they used to calculate the vat as the vial is shipped from virginia to the EU. That $1000 is not even margin. Because the same pharmaceutical company is passing the product from its US extraction site to its own refining site in Germany. The pharmaceutical company which owns both the refining plant and the extraction site in America doesn't actually make profit until it's turned into a product at the end. The transfers is literally the equivalent of you moving an apple from your right hand to your left hand, but on a corporate level.


This is a corporate structure that corporations use to limit liability.



The pharmaceutical entities which own the entire plasma opperation are often making just 15% on the opperation because of overhead and the fact that its useless until its refined. Refining plasma has even more regulation and more overhead and more expensive scientists that must be employed. If this chain is bringing 15% and giving you 3% they're actually giving you a favor. that's literally 15% of their profit that goes back to the donator. You literally don't get this type of return for selling a glorified commodity.

 

[Black Hans]

Middle class Americans? They can't just say white people?

 

[boogers]

This is horribly innaccurate. that's not how the industry works at all. That you two poster is an educated in basic corporate structuring.


The overhead is massive for this industry because of all the Federal regulation. The processing location in Germany is owned by the exact same entity that has the plasma center. They must be vertically integrated to make the business model work. That $1,000 is not profit. It's the amount of money that they used to calculate the vat as the vial is shipped from virginia to the EU. That $1000 is not even margin. Because the same pharmaceutical company is passing the product from its US extraction site to its own refining site in Germany. The pharmaceutical company which owns both the refining plant and the extraction site in America doesn't actually make profit until it's turned into a product at the end. It's literally the equivalent of you moving an apple from your right hand to your left hand, but on a corporate level.


This is a corporate structure of the corporations used to limit liability.



The pharmaceutical entities which own the entire plasma opperation are often making just 15% on the opperation because of overhead and the fact that its useless until its refined. Refining plasma has even more regulation and more overhead and more expensive scientists that must be employed. If this chain is bringing 15% and giving you 3% they're actually giving you a favor. that's literally 15% of their profit that goes back to the donator. You literally don't get this type of return for selling a glorified commodity.

man i came in here to laugh at well-off (compared to me) cacs and their newfound financial misery. get outta here with that 'akshualy theyre called ephebophiles' crap lol

 

[USMaroon]

This is horribly innaccurate. that's not how the industry works at all. That youtube poster uneducated in basic corporate structuring.


The overhead is massive for this industry because of all the Federal regulation. The processing location in Germany is owned by the exact same entity that has the plasma center. They must be vertically integrated to make the business model work. That $1,000 is not profit. It's the amount of money that they used to calculate the vat as the vial is shipped from virginia to the EU. That $1000 is not even margin. Because the same pharmaceutical company is passing the product from its US extraction site to its own refining site in Germany. The pharmaceutical company which owns both the refining plant and the extraction site in America doesn't actually make profit until it's turned into a product at the end. It's literally the equivalent of you moving an apple from your right hand to your left hand, but on a corporate level.


This is a corporate structure of the corporations used to limit liability.



The pharmaceutical entities which own the entire plasma opperation are often making just 15% on the opperation because of overhead and the fact that its useless until its refined. Refining plasma has even more regulation and more overhead and more expensive scientists that must be employed. If this chain is bringing 15% and giving you 3% they're actually giving you a favor. that's literally 15% of their profit that goes back to the donator. You literally don't get this type of return for selling a glorified commodity.

Sounds like this person knows what they're talking about. I know nothing so I cant say nothing ...
Btw, I have a Panasonic plasma TV still ... think I can get anything for it?

 

[Negro Caesar]

When i was in the Marine Corps, white dudes in my squadron would go give plasma every Friday and use it for beer and liquor money

 

[Mordith]

People need skill sets. There's gonna be a shyt ton of consolidation over the next year. Way to many corporations have too much bloat. When ppl can work from home, take week long vacations, take pertunity leave for a month it means there are too many employees

 

[sayyestothis]

Paternity breh. Auto correct

 

[boogers]

When i was in the Marine Corps, white dudes in my squadron would go give plasma every Friday and use it for beer and liquor money

CSL plasma bought me so many 40s back in my early 20s lol. the best time to drink beer was after 'donating' cos it hits you harder lol. you could "donate" twice a week and they'd pay 25 then 35 for the second "donation." you'd go so much you'd see other people you knew in line after a while too. the worst was when you'd get a new nurse/phlebotomist who was still green and scared to stick you properly, so you'd spend half the time laying there trying to wave them over to fix the IV. saw some scary shyt there too, a lot of people in bad/poor health "donating" because they had no other choice. people would get sick, shyt themselves, have ambulances called. honestly pretty horrific thinking back on it.

i put "donate" in quotes, cos nobody is donating shyt. you donate blood, they dont pay you for it. you donate your old furniture to goodwill, they dont pay you for it. they call it 'donating' plasma because "i am forced by late-stage american capitalism to sell my literal body fluids" would be too much, and it wouldnt fit on the sign

 

[Strapped]

Sell it for $30 & the company turns around & makes $800 . Gotta luv American greed

 

[⠀X ⠀]

If you gotta sell your bodily fluids to pay the rent, you ain’t middle class. You’re not even working class.