I don't want to encourage pet insurance.

Widespread use of health insurance to cover every little thing is the biggest factor in the exorbitant cost of health care in humans ... I'd hate for the same thing to happen to veterinary medicine.

We just adopted a kitten a couple weeks ago and they were trying to push the pet insurance on us then. Frankly it would have been expensive enough that we'd be better off just setting aside the cost of the premiums into sort of a medical savings account for the cat.


Looking back over the last few pets we've owned, only one of them would have paid off (Corgi we had had two ACL surgeries at about $2500 a pop) The rest of them (two cats, two dogs and a love bird) cost us less than a grand total.

Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
They aren't covered under Obamacare?
Yeah, and eventually they'll be able to vote