I've seen this being discussed in other threads on other subjects, so I'm making a new thread here dedicated to it.

I think CLL would not get cheaper in the west by much, if at all, if more people knew about it.  Someplace it was quite well known was China in 2007.  The Chinese doctors at Guang Ji Hospital had a patient assembly line going.  So many people were trained to do one specific job in an efficient system, and they were able to do 4-6 surgeries a day there in one operating room.

This isn't how medicine is practiced in the west, especially not in America.  The red tape that exists here would make the Guang Ji model impossible to pull off.  Medicine in America is slow, cumbersome, and expensive.  Everyone's worried about getting sued.  So much documentation and administrative bureaucracy is required to keep a medical practice going.  As of now cosmetic surgeons are doing very well for themselves charging more money to fewer people, while minimizing the risk of lawsuits and without stepping on anyone else's toes.

If CLL got really popular in America, I think the price might actually go up.  The standards for workers are much higher here, and not many people can measure up.  There's already a shortage of workers and facilities.  Cosmetic practices would need to attract employees away from the illness/injury ones, who could raise their prices without limit because insurance companies would pay whatever the going rate was for their patients who needed treatment.  Many of those workers got into healthcare because they wanted to help sick people, not just to make money, so they might not even be interested as a matter of principle.

And in Europe with the socialist model, the governments might even get involved if the cosmetic orthopedic market was horning in on illness/injury resources too much.