My visit to the ER yesterday

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93. I understand the prescription

diet just fine, but you said it was nothing but crap. There are other brands of prescription diet food. Maybe your vet doesn't carry other brands, I don't know obviously. My comment about the food wasn't a smart ass one, I was simply asking why you used it out if curiosity.

Oh and I am not sticking up for our health care system, wtf? Are you kidding me? It's got to be the most immoral and corrupt system in the world in regard to health care. I lived with single payer, it was fricken awesome. My husband had Hodgkin's disease twice and all we paid was what we were charged through our taxes, which I can tell you was a small fraction of what most pay for in their insurance premiums here. We didn't have copays at the hospital or medical clinics. We didn't even pay for his take home prescription meds because he got them filled in the hospital, which had no way of charging for them because they don't charge for a thing. If he filled them in a pharmacy he still only would have to pay our equivalent of $7 per script no matter the drug or quantity. It was nice not to have to worry about the money and get harassed for payment that we could never have possibly afforded had we lived here. I've seen it in action and I used it myself in the 10 years I had it. What we have has got so out of control it's unreal. Prices keep skyrocketing and soon if this keeps up, only the rich will be able to afford healthcare.

The point I was making about veterinarians is that while they have gotten more expensive right along with our healthcare costs, they are still significantly cheaper, despite having tremendous costs. Would you rather nobody became a vet and we had none because that's exactly what would happen if they charged little to nothing because they couldn't support themselves or be able to pay back their loans. It's a fact of life that they have costs associated with their profession. Do I like that it's pricey? Of course I don't. What would be your solution? How can vets charge next to nothing but be able to stay afloat personally and professionally?

I hear you about education being too much. Hell that is one of the reasons I didn't go to vet school, or any school for that matter. It's awful how bad things have gotten, way too expensive for education, way too expensive for medical care, human and animal. I don't even have insurance right now because I cannot afford the premium, and even if I could just barely afford it, I wouldn't have anything left for copays so I couldn't even afford to use it.
Anyone who doesn't see the problem here evidently has more money than sense.