"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Fountain of Youth: According to CNN, more Medicare-age patients are having plastic surgery to look younger. Yet another argument for making the program needs-based. Although Medicare probably isn't paying for the procedures, the fact that we subsidize the other healthcare of people who are wealthy enough to afford this sort of thing should give us all pause.
UPDATE: Another viewpoint on vanity and aging. posted by Sydney on
8/18/2002 07:19:00 AM
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