Well for the former it's probably a xerox/bandaid thing. For the latter I'd say follow the money. For-profit medicine doesn't want insurance to pay for people to get better, they want you to stay just sick enough to work but always be hooked on something. Hence denigrating a lot of preventative or curative procedures that you can technically live without as "elective".
“Plastic” vs “Cosmetic”, yes…
Somehow two not entirely synonymous things became conflated to the point of the distinction being lost…
People also no longer understand that “elective surgery” ≠ “cosmetic surgery”, or, at least, it doesn’t always mean that…
I can’t help but think the conflation is deliberate. At least for the first two. 🤷🏻♂️
Well for the former it's probably a xerox/bandaid thing. For the latter I'd say follow the money. For-profit medicine doesn't want insurance to pay for people to get better, they want you to stay just sick enough to work but always be hooked on something. Hence denigrating a lot of preventative or curative procedures that you can technically live without as "elective".