mrstickball said:
And having said this, I will bring up the argument I made earlier that no one else has challenged. Do you not believe that veterinary clinics have the same exact problems with rendering emergency services? Yet the fact is, a veterinary clinic will charge you 60% less than the hospital will for the same service, with a similar success rate for a horse as does the surgeon with a human's appendectomy. |
Though i'd say one reason for that is that they have too....
as much as i love my cat, at a certain point i'm just not spending the money on it to keep it alive.
For me though, i'd spend all I can.
Which is another big reason shit can be expensive in a free market situation, when dealing with their lives, people are going to get the best most expensive treatemetns they can to live long enough.
Unlike socialized systems where you get cheaper "good enough" treatments, that may not be the best, but for your age group are as much as they can justify or that probably will work just as well who can tell.
