I think your analysis on vets fees has some merit. There's a feedback loop going on between an insurance model and a wider range if services. But also, there's alot of out and out gouging, with rampant information assymetries. The mark up on basic drugs was 12 times in our local vets. Much of it just feels like rent seeking, end stage capitalism.
Vet fees are high because many practices have been taken over by VC groups whose only existence is to make as much money as possible. Similar thing happening in dental practices. The old days of a vet actually running and owning practice are very much numbered.
Birmingham is Britain's second city but most births there are now Muslim. Non Muslims leaving the area as do not wish to be a minority in schools, council priorities etc.
Discussions on discrimination miss this....at a certain size or trajectory maybe you can't complain about discrimination.
Vet firms acquired by private equity have a tendency to oversell tests and treatments in our experience (do they have a ticklist of upsales to be made?) and a lot of people are assumed to treat a pet in the same way as a family member, spending no object.
As a vet myself you’ve got to the heart of the issue pretty neatly there.
The over anthropomorphism of companion animals in our society is certainly partly responsible for changing expectations and the cost associated with that.
A good vet should always make it clear to the pet owner of the more pragmatic, and in many cases more ethical, option.
The fundamental principle borrowed from medicine “At first do no harm” is closely followed by
“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” in veterinary.
Re 10, the Church of England DOES have a different position but this tends to get glossed over
Very true! And totally coherent to defend this.
I think your analysis on vets fees has some merit. There's a feedback loop going on between an insurance model and a wider range if services. But also, there's alot of out and out gouging, with rampant information assymetries. The mark up on basic drugs was 12 times in our local vets. Much of it just feels like rent seeking, end stage capitalism.
Vet fees are high because many practices have been taken over by VC groups whose only existence is to make as much money as possible. Similar thing happening in dental practices. The old days of a vet actually running and owning practice are very much numbered.
The size of a religion impacts rest of society.
Birmingham is Britain's second city but most births there are now Muslim. Non Muslims leaving the area as do not wish to be a minority in schools, council priorities etc.
Discussions on discrimination miss this....at a certain size or trajectory maybe you can't complain about discrimination.
Vet firms acquired by private equity have a tendency to oversell tests and treatments in our experience (do they have a ticklist of upsales to be made?) and a lot of people are assumed to treat a pet in the same way as a family member, spending no object.
As a vet myself you’ve got to the heart of the issue pretty neatly there.
The over anthropomorphism of companion animals in our society is certainly partly responsible for changing expectations and the cost associated with that.
A good vet should always make it clear to the pet owner of the more pragmatic, and in many cases more ethical, option.
The fundamental principle borrowed from medicine “At first do no harm” is closely followed by
“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” in veterinary.