Joe Spector

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.

And you will have these people say that they will prefer the status quo, the industry association will say they'll prefer the status quo than allow telemedicine.

And by the way, it's not an either or choice.

It's not like, oh, I have a video call and now I no longer get vaccines at the vet.

You know, like we have, again, human health care

we still go to our brick and mortar annual checkup, whatever.

And then if we have a issue at night, we don't have to go to emergency.

That's right.

But if he has a rash and you just want to know, like, what is this?

Why do you have to go to urgent care when you can just show, again, the dogs in the comfort of their home and you use your phone and show a video of their paw?

Right.

Like, why do you have to drag that in?