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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA speaker at one of the M4M4ALL rallies today:
This guy is SERIOUS!!!
"I think Medicare for All should apply to pets too!" (starts at about 35 seconds)
Link to tweet
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)abqtommy
(14,118 posts)for their pets.
George II
(67,782 posts)....and rats.
Perhaps we should have healthcare for roaches and rats?
Where does it end?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)...a "bomb" to kill all the critters in the apartment. Then we'd go out for a few hours. When we came home they spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning up the dead insects, etc. and wiping down everything.
It worked for a few months but being in a building with other residents they gradually found their way back in.
Getting back, just what is your logic behind providing Medicare or Medicaid to pets?
abqtommy
(14,118 posts)me in my life, and the lives of many other people. I have no logic to persuade you of anything. That's my opinion and it's as good as anyone's. This is your op and you can accept the replies you get. Or
not. That's up to you.
George II
(67,782 posts)....why don't we include filling our gas tanks in M4A. Further, we had to use my car because my wife's wouldn't start. When do we add car repairs to M4A?
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)Veterinary care cost is through the ceiling.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)and as usual failing to address people's real needs.
Vet care has moved on from deworming and removing fish hooks. A friend gives her diabetic dog insulin injections each day and is at the vet's and/or animal hospital for something else serious at least once a month, and some other friends who strain to provide medical care for themselves recently got snowed under with diagnostic, surgical and hospital bills after their dog was found to have liver cancer.
Someone has to pay for pet care, and obviously that should be everyone.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)that veterinarians carry.
Just giving help for that would make a big difference
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)It won't bring down their own costs for the very sophisticated and advanced services they are now able to provide. That's the big difference from the past, same as for people medicine.
Mostly a very good thing, of course. But our own experience is that in our "fixed-income" years we can't afford pets any more because modern veterinary medicine has advanced as it has for people. Far more can be done for our beloved little creatures than in the past, and much of it will always be very expensive. And of course we couldn't say no while we had savings to draw down.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)I can't afford all that fancy stuff. I do the best I can but those expensive diagnostics are out of reach for us.
Fortunately my vets are really good and they have worked so long they just know what's wrong from symptoms
They also understand that we are on a fixed income.
Lots of people can't afford thousands of dollars in fees.
I have a friend that is a vet and she feels like she deserves to get those prices and everyone needs to get insurance. Of course, she can do most if her own veterinary care.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)to spend fortunes on their pets, and want to. And they can afford insurance. Our daughter and her husband have two cats and two dogs who all have regular professional grooming appointments and are boarded at a pet resort whenever they go away for even a weekend.
In our day our kids didn't even get that level of special care. We traded favors with friends for both kids and critters and threw them in the tub when turning the hose on them wasn't enough.
It's just a shame when people who'd like to give a home to an animal decide not to for this reason, and I suspect more are having to.
TexasTowelie
(112,174 posts)One of her nine lives depends on it.
George II
(67,782 posts)...to Medicat.
Perhaps we should change the proposal to Medicare for Everything.
Haggard Celine
(16,846 posts)just speaking in favor of Medicare for all? If he's supporting a specific candidate, he's probably doing them more harm than good.
albacore
(2,398 posts)brush
(53,778 posts)pets getting medicare. That will never fly.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)It could decimate the prospects of Democratic candidates across the boards.
And I have my pet covered by a health insurance plan, btw.
But there is no way it should be mandated.
George II
(67,782 posts)Sympthsical
(9,073 posts)Will we get OPs making fun of BLM protests and marches?
Conservative slips are unsightly things.
Autumn
(45,083 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)progressoid
(49,990 posts)Tarc
(10,476 posts)just have punchable faces, and don't realize how they have been propped up and supported by the far-right, in an attempt to enable them to be spoilers.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,231 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)We used to make fun of.
I thought this movement had more legs.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)... who will make it impossible to accomplish anything.
Ron Green
(9,822 posts)We have enough investment schemes in this country; we need a health care system.
Making fun of the over-the-top utterances that are bound to come along in this important fight, in the service of defending the immoral corporate system under which we have all been struggling, is inexcusable.