Joe Spector

Just because health care is regulated at the state level.

This is veterinary care.

That's the system we live in.

But actually, I will tell you this.

Most legislators, once we tell them that this is a law that you need to help us with, most of them are completely on board.

They're like, we have human health care.

And a lot of them will say, I didn't even know this was an issue.

Like you said, I didn't even know this was an issue.

This is dumb.

Right.

So where it doesn't work is when the AVMA or a lot of these state lobby groups who have hundreds of millions of dollars in annual budgets, if they've lined a politician's pocket, then that's where we will have trouble in those states.

Taking money from the veterinary lobby.

Yeah, medical association.

There's one reason that they'll say, and then there's one reason that they'll say behind closed doors.

So what they'll say in public is that they'll say telemedicine is gonna harm dogs, lead to millions of dogs dying.

But what they'll say at the hearing behind closed doors, it's purely financial.

They think that it's an either or choice that if you have telemedicine, people will no longer go to the vet and their brick and mortar business is going to die.

That's not true.

Exactly.

Dogs are getting zero care.