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A copy of the most recent Practical Guide to the Reimbursement of Medical Expenses was recently leaked to European media and then to the public, revealing that almost £3 million of taxpayer monies will be spent in 2011 by members of the European Parliament (MEPs) for luxury items such as spa visits and cosmetic surgery!
The European Parliament has 736 members. The members, as well as their families, have already been reimbursed for cosmetic surgery, anti-aging products & treatments, massages and private spa visits, sometimes at 100% of expenses for these non-essentials. Further, sons and husbands of MEPs have also received free Viagra, although it was claimed Viagra was given only to men whose impotence was a result of injury. Right now, along with the rest of the globe, Europe is in a state of fiscal austerity, making these costs that much more unacceptable to the public.
Up until about 2004, American military servicemen and women received free cosmetic surgery. The reason for doing so was that military plastic surgeons were thought able to better develop their skills in reconstruction when they were allowed to also perform cosmetic procedures, ie, surgery on healthy, uninjured people. This policy was scrapped after CNN released a story about the practice. The result is that service personnel now can get cosmetic surgery at their military hospitals at a discount. Unfortunately, that means that plastic surgeons training under military hospital supervision perform fewer cosmetic cases than in the past, giving them less experience than those who went before them under the old arrangement.
To my blog readers: Do you think military personnel received free cosmetic surgery in order to train military plastic surgeons or do you think that was just a ruse so that members of the military received more percs? Share your views!
To your health & beauty,
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