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hinkleyyesterday at 10:24 PM2 repliesview on HN

What kind of plastic surgery are you looking to gatekeep?

Because I guarantee you the people who pointed out that plastic surgery was covered have ideas of what that should be.

Plastic surgery can include burn and emergency surgical scars (trauma surgeons are just trying to keep your insides in and your outsides out, and then they have to run to the next patient to do the same), and hair transplants can include head injuries or cancer surgeries in young people in addition to vain old men.

When we discuss things like this in political arenas, nuance goes out the window and you're contributing to condemning little girls to walk around with giant patches of missing hair and people to tolerate visible scars that will absolutely be used to illegally discriminate against them for jobs that would allow them to afford their own procedures.


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oleleleyesterday at 10:33 PM

He's talking about highly educated doctors taking jobs in private clinics instead of working in public hospitals for less.

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mrtksnyesterday at 10:28 PM

I think its obvious from the context what kind of plastic surgery, the vanity one.

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