Over the past decade, the cost of veterinary care in the U.S. has skyrocketed, as health care for pets has come to look more like health care for people.

Katie Thomas, an investigative health care reporter for The Times, discusses how pet care became a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the fraught emotional and financial landscape that has created for pet owners.

Guest: veterinary-bills.html">Katie Thomas, an investigative health care reporter for The New York Times.

Background reading: 

• veterinary-bills.html">Why you’re paying your veterinarian so much.
• From 2021: A pandemic-era pet boom spurred veterinary companiespet-care-pandemic.html"> to open new, upscale clinics.

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