Subsidizing Fido’s Healthcare – IOTW Report

Subsidizing Fido’s Healthcare

The plan is, now, that we pay for poor people’s pets? Why do poor people have pets??? It’s not a right. In fact, in nearly all cases it’s a wrong.

This is why many people are poor, they have no basic understanding for responsibility. Normal people will not get a dog when they live in a tiny apartment and they can’t afford food, let alone have children (but don’t get me started.)

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Anyone who owns a furry, feathered or scaly critter is apt to tell you their companion isn’t a mere pet but a member of the family. But what happens in low-income households when these family members get sick or injured?

Too often their owners are left with an excruciating choice: Pay for groceries, or emergency care for Fido? Rising costs have invaded veterinary medicine as surely as they have the human health care industry.

From 1991 to 2015, the money people spent on vet bills rose at three times the rate of inflation, according to Bloomberg.

Being poor shouldn’t prevent people from owning a pet; neither should it hinder folks from properly taking caring of one.

Fortunately, eleven senators who sit on the state’s Health and Long Term Care Committeeagree. It’s why they sponsored Senate Bill 6196, which would allow animal care and control agencies and nonprofit humane societies to provide a broader spectrum of veterinary treatment to households that can’t afford it.

It means folks with limited incomes would no longer have to relinquish pets to overcrowded shelters — or worse, elect what is known as economic euthanasia and say goodbye for good.

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HT/ JD Hasty

18 Comments on Subsidizing Fido’s Healthcare

  1. For Washington state, but…This is from 0bamacare. I read about this about 2 or 3 years ago. They’re coming for all of you and your pets. Eventually, everyone’s animals will be covered under their human health insurance through the state. You think your insurance is high now? Wait.

  2. This makes me heart-sick. Not outraged, not angry (ok, a little bit), but despondent at what mankind (yes, I said it) has been put through. Some elites want to control our lives and to gain that control, prey on our cherished values and beauty. Our relationship with our critters is sacred to most of us and to have it treated as a ‘gun to our heads’ for the furtherance of the left’s plan to take over our society is unholy.

    OK, that sounds corny, but I hate the left using our love for our critter companions as leverage. We know your motive. We know you don’t care what agony it is for people who are faced with the pain of sick critters; you just pretend to care to snare the unwary.

    Yes, I’m a little emotional right now. It’s been almost 2 years without a critter and my heart misses them greatly. Everyone, hug your critters for me. Thanks.

  3. For most of the service projects I have been on the families we helped had many pets, while being extremely poor. That’s normal, and while pets and people have to go with a little less they won’t change.

    Just recognizing it, not condoning it. And certainly not willing to pay for it.

  4. There are pet clinics and events monthly at fair grounds that provide low cost shots and care. I often feel I’m making better choices for my dog then myself paying cash and learning about treatment options and making an informed decision instead of selecting treatment based on how much out of pocket it will cost.

  5. I had my pets before I ended up poor and now we are clawing our way back to middle class and still have the pets. I don’t want the government telling me how to care for my family (kids and pets) but I am forever grateful to blog friends who helped us out during the lean and ugly times. Not having animal companions was never an option, they give us a lot more than what we sacrifice to have them with us. So we never went on a vacation and don’t go out to eat or have a lot of name brand things, but we are never without a friendly face and cuddle or a good laugh when we need it.
    Having said that, I don’t want hubby’s tax dollars subsidizing anyone’s pets and I don’t want the government in charge of our pets’ medical care because I don’t trust them (the gov’t). There are low cost options available to help get your pets their vaccinations & neuterings which helps a lot. Our local vet is willing to negotiate with us on certain things because we have so many creatures and they know us, but we saved thousands by using a low cost clinic to get our female dogs & cats spayed.

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