NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The U.S. Army has long lured recruits with the slogan "Be All You Can Be," but now soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on the taxpayers' dime.
NEW YORK (Reuters) -- The U.S. Army has long lured recruits with the slogan "Be All You Can Be," but now soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on the taxpayers' dime.
So, would this be a ploy to get more votes?
Not a bad idea. I don't want a draft as that's bad for everyone. Bigger Hooters for a safer america is a good tradeoff.
considering that these people are underpaid, their health benefits suck compared to what my company offers me, their kids go to relatively shitty schools, etc, I hope every single one who wants a nose/boob/butt job gets 2 or 3.
also considering their plastic surgeons need to be good for all the reconstructive stuff they do for burned and disfigured soldiers, i am also for anything that they feel will help their trade.
The surgeons don't get paid 'per job', they are salaried i think. SO it isnt the equivalent of civilian surgeons charged $10K per nose job or whatever. The cost to the taxpayers is simply the supplies needed for the procedure.
Though i am curious why some reservists are supposedly sitting for months in Ft. Benning GA waiting for procedures and things like boob jobs are being done for cosmetic reasons
Adex_Xeda wrote:I thought the armed forces were short on funding?
They are this is why they are doing this. If the Military pays for new breast then playboy will want to do the girls of the armed forces issue. It worked for Wal-Mart and Home Depot.
they do not get paid by the procedure like civilian surgeons. So, the cost for a military surgeon doing boob jobs is probably more or less the same as the cost of a military surgeon not doing boob jobs.
Most of the procedures are for disfigurements. Some are done for cosmetic reasons but its done to keep people happy. A depressed unhappy person isn't productive at all.
Voronwë wrote:armed services doctors are salaried.
they do not get paid by the procedure like civilian surgeons. So, the cost for a military surgeon doing boob jobs is probably more or less the same as the cost of a military surgeon not doing boob jobs.
They get the same pay no matter what they do and I assure you they need all the practice they can get.
On a side note it takes many years of service for the average person to even get above poverty level in salery from the armed services. In 1993/4 I was stationed in Colorado Springs (Ft. Carson) as an E4 and made 13000 a year and that was with the pay hike for the expensive area we lived in. Health care was 100% free but many of the doctors were just there to do a 4 year stint for some education/experience and were by far not the best you will find.
Reconstructive/plastic surgery has its place in the military and the doctors need to practice these things so when the time comes to put johnnys face back on after he kissed a land mine they can do it some what effectivly.
some (i really don't know the numbers) military doctors, lawyers too, couldn't pass the BAR exam.
a military doctor (major) diagnosed me with Gilbert's Disease. he couldn't tell me anything about it 'cause he had no clue. he did a search on teh net and gave me a print out of the web page. below is not what he gave me. i have since lost or threw away that print out.
GILBERT'S DISEASE
Report #6753
Bilirubin is a yellow pigment released from dead red blood cells into your bloodstream. Recent research shows that having high blood levels of bilirubin may help prevent heart attacks.
Researchers at the University of in Utah School of Medicine showed that men and women with high blood levels of bilirubin have an extraordinarily low chance of getting heart attacks and those with low blood levels were at significantly increased risk for developing heart attacks.
Red blood cells last about 120 days, then burst and release a pigment called bilirubin into the bloodstream. The liver picks it up, converts it to bile and it flushes it from your body. The liver of some people cannot convert bilirubin into a form that is easily removed, so bilirubin rises to higher-than-normal levels. Since high blood levels of bilirubin are associated with liver disease and certain type of anemia, doctors often order extra tests whenever a person has high blood levels of bilirubin. 5% of Americans have high blood levels of bilirubin and suffer no ill effects from it. These people are usually told that they have Gilbert's disease and have nothing wrong with them. Now we learn that not only is Gilbert's disease not harmful, it may prolong life by preventing heart attacks. The bad LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream must be converted to oxidized LDL before it can form plaques in arteries. Bilirubin helps to prevent oxidized LDL cholesterol from forming and therefore prevents heart attacks.
By Gabe Mirkin, M.D., for CBS Radio News
Checked 12/9/03
Hopkins PN et al. Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology. February, 1996
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