PA Pooches Get Health Care, But Their Human Counterparts? No Way!
While lawmakers in Pennsylvania are cracking down on "puppy mills" and other unhealthy conditions for the care and raising of dogs in the Quaker State, it seems that these same legislators just couldn't find it in them to forge a consensus about how to provide care for 20,000 or more uninsured Pennsylvanian people.
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pennsylvania dogs are now guaranteed better conditions in kennels and veterinary care on a regular basis--which is more than you can expect if you don't have employer-based health insurance in PA.
While Governor Rendell has been said to have been trying to rid Pennsylvania of its reputation as the "puppy mill capital of the East", it seems too bad that it would now have, thanks to Senate Republicans, the reputation of putting dogs ahead people.
Summer Johnson, PhD
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I think it was Mahatma Gandhi who said "the greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way it treats its animals and children" -- We should raise the bar for people, not lower it for animals -- the tragedy is not that animals are being treated humanely, but that people are not.
- by Linda MacDonald Glenn on Oct 9, 2008 at 11:30 AM | link