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Why now ? For all these years they were not covered under insurance.
No one complained..if they wanted them they paid out of their pocket.
Leave them alone..why go after them now when you've ignored them for years.
The smell of $$$$ I guess.
Ignored them..LOL.. um.. health insurance is about getting neccesary medical care covered so that you may live.. that's first.
How hypocritical of the right. The same group that wants to deem medical care as a luxury and compare everyone to getting health care the same as everyone getting a car, now wants to say that plastic surgery should be covered
Oh for christ sake..plastic surgery should be taxed just like any luxury item..cars, tv's etc.. Simple.. don't want to pay the tax, don't buy the non life saving surgery/procedure.
Unlike some republicans, I really am in favor of everyone having health care and I know it has to be paid for one way or the other, but...that said, something about this just strikes me as fundamentally wrong. I can't put my finger on what bothers me exactly, but I don't like it. It doesn't seem right to me to penalize people by a tax just because they want to have some type of elective surgery. Maybe I'm more of a republican economically than I've realized in the past. I dunno.
What do you think?
I think you are fearful of gov't control, huge bureaucracy and the resulting ineffeciency that will accompany it. Whats the ratio, how many govt bureaucrats are their to doctors in Europe? I bet my last penny, there are more gov bureaucrats for every doctor.
Candy is taxed because it has no nutritive or life sustaining value. It's not "real food".. and elective cosmetic surgery is not a life saving or life sustaining event.. and accept in regards to having had a bad accident and needing the surgery for repair, or after breast removal etc.. it is purely elective with no life saving or life sustaining value.. just like candy, just like a car, just like a TV, Cell phone and any other item we do not need.. and taxing it is just fine...
There is a HUGE difference between medicine /procedures that are needed for life sustainment and some woman who wants to make her lips look plumper
Candy is taxed because it has no nutritive or life sustaining value. It's not "real food".. and elective cosmetic surgery is not a life saving or life sustaining event.. and accept in regards to having had a bad accident and needing the surgery for repair, or after breast removal etc.. it is purely elective with no life saving or life sustaining value.. just like candy, just like a car, just like a TV, Cell phone and any other item we do not need.. and taxing it is just fine...
Really? Even on top of a sales tax? (I believe some states already do charge a sales tax on cosmetic procedures.)
Hopefully you're also against insurance covering birth control pills. There's no life-saving or life-sustaining value to birth control pills. Having sex and taking birth control pills is - to use your phrase - "purely elective".
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Candy is taxed because it has no nutritive or life sustaining value. It's not "real food".. and elective cosmetic surgery is not a life saving... just like a car, just like a TV, Cell phone and any other item we do not need.. and taxing it is just fine.
Would you be okay with taxing any of your excess driving? That's the mindset you're displaying. You should be able to do mostly whatever the hell you want without having an additional tax levied on it.
Would you be okay with taxing any of your excess driving? That's the mindset you're displaying. You should be able to do mostly whatever the hell you want without having an additional tax levied on it.
LOL.. yeah.. okay.
Well. we pay tax on the gas.. the more we drive, the more gas we buy, the more tax we pay.
We pay tax on a car..
All luxury items.. I have no problem with that..
Plastic Cosmetic surgery just because is a luxury..
Really? Even on top of a sales tax? (I believe some states already do charge a sales tax on cosmetic procedures.)
Hopefully you're also against insurance covering birth control pills. There's no life-saving or life-sustaining value to birth control pills. Having sex and taking birth control pills is - to use your phrase - "purely elective".
a lot of insurance companies don't..
and so therefore Viagra should also not be covered!
There are some "cosmetic" procedures that are performed solely to correct facial and other deformatives that cause severe emotional pain to the children unfortunate enough to have been born with them. Example: severe hemangiomas ("strawberry" birthmark). This is just ONE example. There are countless others.
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but I don't like it. It doesn't seem right to me to penalize people by a tax just because they want to have some type of elective surgery. Maybe I'm more of a republican economically than I've realized in the past. I dunno.
tax, tax, tax is a none answer
