Chris Selley: Why shouldn’t Canadians get paid to donate blood or plasma?

A sad story from Manitoba proposes an interesting ethical dilemma, and provides some insight into how Canadians, and Canadian media, think about health-care policy. The story: In recent months, two people have passed away in Winnipeg after donating plasma at private clinics run by the Spanish biopharmaceutical colossus Grifols, which trades on both the Madrid Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. (You can already see where this story is going, in part.) Read More