There are specialists for thin hair, kinky hair, straight hair, dyed hair, and hair with bald spots. HMO's hire the cheapest barbers, work them to death. They reduce their workload by implementing phone systems that hang up on customers, six month waiting lists, utilization review, routine claim denial and undertreatment. Barbers working for HMO's are pressured to limit haircuts to five minutes and to not inform customers of their costlier alternatives. Customers hire lawyers to file malpractice suits in order to get adequate haircare.
Litigation increases each year.
The hair care system is out of control. Only three basic hairstyles, certain conditions such as extremely kinky hair just aren't covered. We all know that if haircuts were free, we'd all go to the barber every day, so the President makes any hair benefits over and above the basic package taxable income. Barbers, lawyers and insurance companies all send lobbyists and make multi-million dollar political contributions. The barbers say all the problems are caused by an oversupply of barbers and urge the president to force haircutting schools to cut their enrollment.