• glasratz@feddit.org
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    1 day ago

    Because there’s a political interest in keeping health costs down for humans. For animals the market his more “free”. With doctors in the family we just had the vet recommend the drug and then bought the human version for our dogs.

    • NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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      20 hours ago

      That’s odd, because it’s the exact opposite in my experience. I know of at least two friends who went to a vet and their ‘dog’ was diagnosed with back pain and a drug prescribed for it, because the price of the animal’s drug was wildly cheaper.