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"the most serious medical needs get treatment first"

If that's the definition of universal health care, no country I know has it, because there is no country I know of that has successfully banned cosmetic surgery.



Tell that to a burns victim or a kid with a harelip. Or a breast-cancer patient post mastectomy...


Reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery are not the same thing even though they use similar, and often the same, techniques.


I think that might be a usage thing: over here in the UK they're both plastic surgery, but you see it qualified as reconstructive plastic surgery or aesthetic plastic surgery.

Still, take birthmark removal: it's purely cosmetic, in a sense, but it makes such a difference to peoples' quality of life psychologically that it totally should be on the NHS if you ask me.




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