Loving Their Pets to Debt

2024-07-17に共有
Over the past decade, the cost of veterinary care in the U.S. has skyrocketed, as health care for pets has come to look more like health care for people.


Katie Thomas, an investigative health care reporter for The Times, discusses how pet care became a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the fraught emotional and financial landscape that has created for pet owners.


Guest: Katie Thomas (www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/health/pets-veterinary-…) , an investigative health care reporter for The New York Times.


Background reading: 

• Why you’re paying your veterinarian so much (www.nytimes.com/2024/06/23/health/pets-veterinary-…) .
• From 2021: A pandemic-era pet boom spurred veterinary companies to open new, upscale clinics (www.nytimes.com/2021/05/25/business/vets-pet-care-…) .

For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily) . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. 

コメント (8)
  • @mhz90718
    This and funeral home chains, big businesses knows how easy it is to rob you blind when you are most emotionally vulnerable.
  • Having a pet is a luxury item now. Just like a house, an education, and having kids
  • To many of us, especially the elderly, our pets are like our children within reason we will do whatever it takes.
  • UMMM i think you posted this a day early. but i'm going to listen to it before it gets taken down >:)!!!!! nananananana
  • Why's a 'Friday' episode being released on Thursday morning?
  • @Random_Handle_
    Financially speaking, in today's economy having a house plant is akin to having a pet; having a pet akin to having a kid; and having a kid is akin to having exotic animals that only wealthy people can afford.
  • The culture of pet worship, especially with regards to dogs, is a very strange development, and I believe masks a deeper pathology in society as a whole