Allegory on Health Insurance
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courtesy www.npr.org Morning Edition
This story ran on NPR’s Morning Edition – October 21.
Pet health care is now crossing the same magic threshold that human health care crossed decades ago: It’s getting good, and it’s getting expensive. Veterinary bills are becoming large enough that people are starting to think it would be nice to have someone else pay for them — like an insurer.

I teach principles of economics courses and a course in the economics of healthcare at Southern Oregon University.