07/05/2026
⭐️ ‘Vet Fees Are Extortionate’ & Voting Choices ⭐️
As someone with two chronically ill dogs, trust me I agree vet fees are a lot of money, but it’s essentially private healthcare for our dogs. 🏥
No waitlists, no compromise, you largely get to choose who, what, where, when.
I think being so fortunate to have a public healthcare system, even with its flaws, has put us out of touch with the true cost of health care as we never see the bill for ourselves. 💸
Recently, a Boomerang alumni went through cancer treatment with their dog. Start to finish, its cost around £17,000.
That is an enormous amount of money. But for comparison, cancer treatment for a human in countries without public healthcare can easily run into six figures. 😱
If vet bills are expensive, imagine if we were personally responsible for every GP appointment, scan, surgery, prescription, and hospital stay for ourselves too.
Which brings me to today’s vote.
Parties like Reform openly support NHS privatisation and moving further toward an insurance based healthcare model. Personally, I think that would be catastrophic for ordinary people. 🙈
The NHS absolutely has flaws. It is under pressure, underfunded, and frustrating at times. But the answer is to strengthen and protect it, not turn healthcare into something only comfortably accessible to those who can afford it.
Because once healthcare becomes profit driven, you very quickly realise just how expensive staying alive actually is and vet fees won’t seem so expensive anymore 😅
Personally, I’d quite like us to go the other way and introduce an NHS for dogs! 💪
📸 Pic of Poppy in her ‘wheelchair’ getting out for some fresh air and mental stimulation when she’s not up to walking 🥹
