Quote from: Chris on September 04, 2016, 09:59:24 AMLegally cheating my health insurance company is something I would never do 
I'm a poor university student and even I told my 1st-world orthopedist right away that I require his services for cosmetic reasons and that I will pay everything before and after the surgery in India myself. (Finally found someone who is willing to take x-rays of my legs and measure my bones on Monday btw. Yay!)
I'm not saying that you shouldn't walk the grey area, because it seems to be legal, but other people will have to pay your treatment for something that was purely cosmetic through their fees/charges.
I think this is morally questionable.
Just about to reopen this thread, because I wanted to response to that statement...
I would have absolutely no objection to cheat my insurance to get post-operative care. Why? Bcause they absolutely failed at doing their job when I was younger. In Austria, and as a kid, after my parents, the Austrian social system pledges to be responsible for your well-being and development, the school doctors examine you, the teachers look after you, etc. And to put it in German, "die haben eine ruhige Kugel geschoben!" The doctors never gave a fk that I was skinny and perhaps ate too little, the teachers never gave a fk that I was stressed and had a hard time with my peers, all aspects that could affect my growth. No doctor ever wrote down my growth curve, etc.! They were all just lazy people happy to get their monthly public salaries and sit down on their fat asses. So I would absolutely not have moral objections to public insurance coming up for my LL care!

