Public expenditure can be classified on the basis of benefits they confer on different groups of people. Common benefits to all: Expenditures that confer common benefits on all the people. For example, expenditure on education, public health, transport, defence, law and order, general administration.
More than 4.5 million American lives are saved each year by a single, selfless act--donating blood. In fact, just one pint of blood can help save up to three lives. Although 60 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate blood, only 5 percent actually do. There are several reasons for the low turnout, says Ronald Sacher, MD, Hoxworth Blood Center director and professor of internal medicine and pathology, ranging from nasty weather to discouraging myths.
1 Seven percent of people on the waiting listâmore than 6,500 each yearâdie before they are able to receive a transplant. 2  One deceased donor can save up to eight lives through organ donation and can save and enhance more than 100 lives through the lifesaving and healing gift of tissue donation. The cornea is the most commonly transplanted tissue. 2  More than 40,000 corneal transplants take place each year in the United States. 3  A healthy person can become a âliving donorâ by donating a kidney, or a part of the liver, lung, intestine, blood or bone marrow. 4  More than 6,000 living donations occur each year.