8-Year-Old Sells His Pokemon Cards To Pay Life-Saving Vet Bill

@Newsboy: You're making an awful lot of between-the-lines assumptions about this family in your post.

In the end, a young boy made the very mature decision to trade in one thing he loved for something he loved even more. We don't know what happened in that household leading up to this, but the boy took personal responsibility to help, who's to say he didn't learn that from his parents?

@DuoMaxwell007: Nice flex bro. What did you accomplish?

@SoNin360: You really want your taxes to cover animal bills now? Which animals get free healthcare? What do you think the ratio of domestic pet to person is in the US? Do you think other nations provide free healthcare to pets? Cats and dogs alone make up 150,000,000. What about other pets? Snakes, lizards, birds, rodents, fish, heck, even some farm animals like pigs. On that point, is the line at pets or all domestic animals? What about feral dogs brought into the vet, do they also get covered?

Are you honestly proposing that PETS get universal healthcare, too? Do you realize how insane that sounds?

@SoNin360: It's for a pretty, so it seems like you're doing mental gymnastics here.

@SoNin360: Medical bills for pets are comparatively cheap, it's often the same medicine, same equipment, for a small fraction of the price. The doctors even have to go through similar levels of schooling. When you compare an MRI for a pet vs one for a human and consider that they don't use like, magically cheaper MRI machines for pets it really puts it into prospective.

@SoNin360: yeah man, it's pretty sad you have to go to mortgage for apendicitis. This is free market capitalizing everything, even your right to medicine and to live.

I live in a third world country where most things are screwed up, but at least not this right. Well, not so much, a right wing gov that got kicked 2 years ago destroyed and abandoned some of its infrastructure, firing pediatric oncologists from child hospitals like nothing.

@SoNin360: having lived in the US and also abroad, medical expenses for pets (which is what this story is about) are more based on the prosperity of the region overall than any medical insurance controversies.

@SoNin360: I can assure you as someone from a western country outside of the USA that our vet bills are just as, if not more expensive in some cases. Why does it astonish you that society prioritizes the carrying out, availability, and the affordability for the healthcare of humans over animals? I believe in some aspects of socialized healthcare, but I acknowledge its disadvantages as well, though regardless I highly doubt you would ever find an electorate or government in any society in the past, present, or future that would agree to pay taxes so that pets could get expensive life-saving treatment when this money and resources could be used to benefit humans, you know the species that created the societies in which we live and for whom this whole thing is designed to support; it's absurd and you clearly have no idea how economics or political systems function.

@SoNin360: ask the other countries with socialized healthcare how their covid vaccines are doing, and then you’ll realize the benefits of free market healthcare.

also, no idea what that has to do with what a vet chooses to charge for parvo treatment after people neglected to vaccinate the dog? ehhhh

@SoNin360:

You're not wrong...but you're not completely 100% right either.

You're pretty much absolutely correct on your argument that it points at how fucked up society is that this sort of thing is necessary in the first place. Stipulated.

But it's still pretty cool cool for a kid of that age to care enough to make the sacrifice.

@Barighm: after hearing dr. Jeff comments on Tv about what people told them to come to his clinic, I tend to agree with you. "They need to cover the expenses for their BMW it seems" is marked on my mind.

@Barighm: They're a "rip off" because unlike human doctors (read: doctors for people, not insinuating that there are doctors out there who are not human) medical insurance for pets isn't nearly as widely available globally

@Barighm: getting strays treated != training and expenses for the other 99% of vet procedures.

claiming “vets are a rip-off” is not only gross overgeneralization, but completely untrue since you exist within a free market.

I’m sure “tons of interest” would fade when your “low cost clinic” would be revealed to not be run by DVM or anyone who has access to facilities (or skill) required for certain things.