Surgeons carried out 581 breast reductions, compared to 323 the previous year....Proponents of universal health care need to ponder how to factor something like this into the equation.
Consultant plastic surgeon Rajiv Grover said that while the problem of so-called "man-boobs" - or "gynaecomastia" in official language - was not a new one, it had been thrust into prominence by media coverage. "Many men are feeling the pressure from men's magazines that weren't even being published five or six years ago."
"In addition, they are just realising that they can get something done about it."
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That's quite an assumption you're making re: universal healthcare and cosmetic surgery. Cosmetic surgery is not covered by the NHS here in the UK and I have yet to hear anyone advocating for it in the US.
ReplyDeleteExample, a silver (amalgam) filling at the dentist costs £14 and is covered/subsidised by NHS. A white filling (composite), i.e. 'cosmetic', is an out-of-pocket expense at £95.
- a fellow Midwesterner
What you lack are American lawyers, who argue that cosmetic surgery is medically necessary for my client because he/she suffers from... and it impacts his/her employment/social life... and he/she has threatened to commit suicide... yada yada...
ReplyDeleteHah. If all those young men working for wonderful pecs knew what was ahead of them.... well. I grew up near the body building beaches in SoCal, and those old guys, with their sagging boobs and stretched tats looked sad, sad.
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