highwaystar101 on 22 April 2009
| Slimebeast said: Problem with private healthcare is that the producer has such an upper hand in knowledge. The consumer can't know if he really needs the product or not. The producer can always say: - 'hey, we need to take these extra special blood samples, and you also need to go through a magnetic resonance scan' - 'oh, ok.' And of course the producer has a huge economical motive to do all these unneccessary examinations because they bring in a lot of cash. |
This is a little off topic. That is why I hate vets. My old dog was very ill when he was young, but instead of the vet giving us Cure A (Can't remember the names), which was cheap and worked well. Instead he gave us Cure B, which was expensive and inneffective. My dog nearly died due to this and we lost a crap load of money.
It wasn't until we decided to take him to a skin specialist that told us that Cure A costs 50 quid and need to be done once or twice. He told us all vets know about it and some give Cure B because they earn more money off it, even though it has a high fatality rate.
Needless to say we promptly left the original vets.
