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what category does "beauty plastic surgery" fall under, if not "emergency" or "elective"?

• throwanem 5y ago
  Cosmesis is elective. Neither of us is going to convince one another; you very evidently have strongly held opinions about how medicine should be practiced, whereas I know some things about how it is. That being so, I see no point in continuing this line of discussion any further. Should you feel otherwise, I hope you enjoy it.
  • tomp 5y ago
    The core reasons seems to be that you seem to keep misrepresenting my arguments. I'm not talking about "practicing medicine" at all, just about who pays for what.
    • throwanem 5y ago
      Ensuring patients are able to access the treatments ordered for them, or at least trying to do that, qualifies as part of the practice of medicine. That's why medical practices have billing departments to deal with insurance on the patient's behalf, rather than requiring cash up front and letting patients figure their own way through the reimbursement process. The problem isn't that I'm misrepresenting your arguments, such as they are. The problem is that, instead of finding out how this stuff actually works and understanding why it works the way it does, you prefer to continue insisting on your opinions, which are as apparently uninformed as strongly held. I don't see what you hope to achieve by this save wasting someone time, and my test suite just finished running, so it'll have to be someone else's time from here.
      • tomp 5y ago
        You're right, maybe I'm just unfamiliar with how health insurance works in the US. In Europe, neither public nor private insurance covers beauty surgeries (at least the ones I'm familiar with).