How horrible it must be to endure the pain of cosmetic surgery, only to have some other self-esteem threatening event enter a person's life, like competition from those who are more intelligent, more able at sports, more likable. TOP Even though advocates of cosmetic surgery point out that the surgery costs no one but the patient the expense or discomfort, that reasoning is flawed as well. For example, some insurance companies may wind up covering a nose job based upon false claims that the patient is suffering breathing problems that the surgery would remedy. Such a ruse winds up costing all of us who have insurance as our premiums steadily climb to cover bogus claims. And, not all cosmetic surgery turns out to be harmless.
Silicone implants can apparently cause a host of physical problems.
Those health difficulties will have to be covered by health insurance. If the problems are so severe that the patient's health insurance runs out, taxpayers wind up bearing the burden of caring for that individual. Botched cosmetic surgery often leads to court cases that tie up our legal system and raise malpractice insurance premiums for all doctors, not just irresponsible quacks. When doctors' insurance premiums go up, so do the fees they charge all of us. Finally, although cosmetic surgery proponents point out that the issue is a private, individual matter, affecting no one but the patient, in reality cosmetic surgery affects many people.