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