(...)
Sorry to say, but this will almost never see law. Humans are one thing but
animals don't vote and their owners will vote for themselves over their pets
any day in 90% of the cases. Also, almost no vet receives federal funding of
any kind, which is the key thing that allows the feds to hold such requirements
of treatment over public hospitals.
What we need is affordable animal health insurance, but that which exists
is a joke at best and every vet I deal with agrees 100% and these are vets who
defy their own accountants and break their business rules to let me pay on
installment because they respect that I care so much and put myself out so much
for my animals.
You'd inevitably have fighting between the mandatory spay-and-neuter crowd
and those who are so hard-core they want no surgeries of any kind done on any
animal without life-saving need. You'd have pork-barrel politics get into it
and we'd see tax increases to cover this and we'd see lobbying for more and
more federal funding of public veterinary hospitals and fights with private
vets and animal ambulances and...
Humans will inevitably screw up anything this open to abuse and screwing
with. The pet prescription drug situation would be ripe for messing with. If
you think the cost of your pets' drugs is something now, imagine if it was
masked by insurance and/or laws. $5000 for a one month supply of something now
kept at $200 by market forces could happen easily as it already has with human
pharmaceuticals.
Insurance could work, but how many people in the pet world have any
experience with forming an insurance company? As someone who went through life
insurance sales license training, I can tell you that the government doesn't
make it easy.
-Wayd Wolf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fedrah Wolf" <vinsondelphi_at_yahoo.com>
To: <SkunkworksAMA_at_yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:58 AM
Subject: [SkunkworksAMA] Animal Emergency Law
> Something I recieved in another group, I figure since a good many of
> us are pet owners, it may be of some interest.
(snip)
Received on Mon May 24 2004 - 08:36:50 CDT