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    Laut BBC stehen Tierärzte zunehmend unter Druck, Geld für Unternehmenseigentümer zu verdienen


    Laut BBC stehen Tierärzte zunehmend unter Druck, Geld für Unternehmenseigentümer zu verdienen

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8j3020kl04o

    Von proxima-centauri-

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    1. proxima-centauri- on

      Who is surprised by this? It’s blindingly obvious to anyone who owns a pet and has ever been to a vet. It’s a rip off.

    3. RiseUpAndGetOut on

      American healthcare companies can’t yet access the NHS, so they’ve targeted our pets. It won’t stop.

    4. Neddlings55 on

      This is why i stick to an independent practice. I know they arent being pressured into performing diagnostics/tests that my animals dont need. Everything is a discussion and i trust what my vets say. When i had a cat with cancer they repeatedly gave me free consultations too, as id often panic over little things and take her in.

      Their prices are affected by these greedy corporations though, sadly.

    5. BaldyBaldyBouncer on

      When you vote for consecutive governments that reward greed and punish working people this is what you get.

    6. DateNecessary8716 on

      Worked in animal care as a family for over half a century, about 10 years myself just helping out the family business.

      Vets used to be affordable, but then it went like this:

      Mega American corporations bought nearly all of them out > Insurance became the standard > vets started frivolously administering stuff like sedation and anti-anxiety drugs and raising prices > customers didn’t care, they were insured > insurance rates go up.

      Repeat ad nauseam.

      Another “free market” capitalist wonder.

    7. Odd_Ninja5801 on

      This is yet another side effect of the endless march of money upwards that was started by Thatcher and Reagan. That money is always looking for a place to get a guaranteed good return, which means they’ve been buying up basically anything critical and parasitically extracting money from the rest of us.

      Water. Power. Rent. Healthcare. Care homes. Vets are just one more thing to add to the list.

      Unless there is a massive rebalancing that happens, and somehow we undo the voodoo economics of the last 40 years, it’s only going to get worse. Because all these schemes are now pushing even MORE money to the top, and that’s going to be looking for a way to generate returns as well.

      This is the endgame. And honestly I can’t see a way this ends without it getting very ugly.

    8. redrighthand_ on

      Funnily enough, I’ve just started getting texts from my vets saying the cat is due his ‘six month health check‘.

      He’s never had one before and a yearly check and injection was enough for the last 7 years.

    9. rhetoricalcalligraph on

      Yep, used to work for IVC Evidensia, their internal practices are disgusting, there’s not even the pretense of helping animals or pet owners, it’s pure profit, marketing, and abusing the insurance system where possible. Like the American healthcare system but for pets.

    10. Cute-Cat-2351 on

      I’ve noticed a change at our vets since they were purchased by a group. They’re always upselling, offering blood tests and scans for minor ailments, or offering a drug solution at the merest hint of a problem. I push back now as I see the agenda. Awful.

    11. LokiBear222 on

      As others have alluded to, the countries that charge the most are the ones where there are high rates of owners getting pet insurance.

      This means that the vets can charge more. „As the insurance companies are paying, not you directly“. I kid you not, this is the answer given in Sweden where vets are on average 4 times more expensive than the UK!

      It has led to few animals being spayed/castrated. Not for health reasons. For cost reasons. And things like dog parks for example, are heavily controlled with a system whereby you cannot have multiple dogs from different owners in there due to this. People find a way…….

    12. Revolutionary-Key533 on

      Not just vets but opticians, dentists, tyre replacements and anything „private equity “ is behind.

    13. hime-633 on

      Private equity vultures also targeting children’s homes here in the UK so it is entirely unsurprising that they also see our pets as cash cows (cash cats, cash dogs, whatever).

    14. soloman_tump on

      It also shows you how much the NHS would cost if we paid at point of service.

    15. sparkymark75 on

      If anyone in the UK wants a glimpse of what life would be like without the NHS, you just need to look at veterinary practices for an indication!

    16. ColdAsKompot on

      This is why I have been using a privately own practice. It is the last non-corporate one in my town of 80+ thousand people.

    17. SpareReality7257 on

      My vet keeps trying to put my healthy dog down. Has happened 3 times now

    18. helios694 on

      NHS expenditure is £245B in 24/25, for 67m people, coming out at £3.3k per person per year.

      I’m not a vet and not personally a pet owner, but the problem is most people just don’t know how expensive healthcare is because it’s public in the UK and free at the point of care, paid for by taxes.

      In some ways vet care is even more expensive as per the article, you need sedation for an x-ray as per the article whereas humans don’t, for example. It’s not like the animal can speak to tell you what’s wrong which makes telemedicine much harder.

      Even if it’s not and I discount the £3.3k figure to say £1.5k of comparable costs per year, when people get a pet do they bare that cost in mind? Over 15-20 years that’s £22-30k in healthcare?

      The real disconnect is when someone gets a hamster for £20 in pets4you or something, they expect the vet care to be comparable? Biology is biology, and if the vet says “mate just chuck it and get a new one, it’s not worth it”, would that be a breach in professional standards?

      This is the reason why despite all of the cute memes on the internet, I just can’t bring myself to getting a pet! Affordable pet healthcare is not a given right (unlike human care), and it shouldn’t be..

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