Comments on: Joan Rivers, Cher In Trouble: Congress to Tax Plastic Surgery

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Tanned in the USA | taxgirl — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 10:31:11 +0000

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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:06:38 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:37:21 +0000

You’ve got to be kidding me. How can you tax consumers for procedures that aren’t covered by insurance and use that revenue to assist with the health care reform plan and others insurance?! It just doesn’t make sense, especially if the purpose of the reform is to be more “fair”

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:28:11 +0000

this idea makes me more concerned about the people who currently get “voluntary” medical procedures classified as plastic surgery for mental health reasons. Trans patiens, who granted don’t have much sway and are generally frowned upon by society, use chest reconstruction, breast augmentation, orchiotomies, and vaginoplasty (among other operations) to make their bodies fit their self perception. While the APA sees many of these surgeries as necessary for treatment of the disphoric diagnosis, they are still treated as optional by health insurance companies, and I’m worried a tax that got passed would follow a simmilar suit. Many trans patients appear to be low to middle income and most struggle to fund their surgeries w/o needing to worry about an additional tax. I feel like such a tax would make their psychological treatment that much more difficult and expensive.

By: Roth & Company, P.C.

Roth & Company, P.C. — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:53:09 +0000

But I thought health reform was supposed to save money!…

Congress is in a frenzy to find money to pay for health care “reform.” Taxes on everything from Botox to……

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