Another reason why I haven’t donated blood in awhile…

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/localandstate/orl-maxwell0809feb08,0,6961553.column

When Bob Horner found out that Anne Chinoda, CEO of Florida's Blood Centers, was making $500,000 a year, he got angry.
And when he learned that some of the nonprofit's board members and their companies were involved in millions of dollars of deals with the agency they were supposedly watchdogging, he got angrier still.
Horner, after all, said he was a regular blood donor. And he had no idea his veins were helping pump so much money in so many directions.
So Horner fired off an e-mail to the nonprofit's top employees, saying the big spending made him "think twice about donating my blood."

In response, Blood Centers public-relations manager Larry Ganns responded: "Hardly anyone will pick up this story and run with it because the Sentinel is largely irrelevant. It's not like Anne took stimulus money and purchased a G5. Wake me up when you have news."
Not exactly the response Horner expected.

I became disillusioned about blood centers when I found out how much they charge research hospitals centers to have access to such blood. I give it for free, and they turn around and make a huge profit. Lame.