Jan 12
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Replacement Not an Option for Breast Implant Victims
I know we’ve been harping away at this big news story about the french company that sold thousands of faulty implants many of which were unfortunately implanted in a lot of patients. But this stuff needs to be aired out so it can ensure that no other companies will be able to pull off such a widespread scandal and hurt so many women potentially as this has.
The governments of the countries where women are most affected by the dangerous implants have actually offered to pay for women to get the implants removed if they choose to do so. However, on of the government bodies, Venezuela’s in fact, is saying they will pay for their removal if patients are worried, but they will not pay for their replacement.
In other words, the women who had the implants can get them removed, but they have to pay for the implants to be put back in, which may amount to just as much money as it did anyway had they paid for the entire thing themselves.
To remove the implants costs one amount, but it is a whole ‘nother procedure to get the implants replaced, and I think that is where the government is stopping short. I can see why, as they cannot send the message that they will pay for plastic surgery to improve one’s appearance, but they can pay to remove something hazardous from their citizen’s bodies.
However, I can also see this from the patients end as well. If I had these faulty breast implants in my body, I’d sure as heck want someone who is responsible (there are also companies that sold these to women as middle men) to actually pay for a replacement as well.
You get used to having breast implants, and it’s not all that fair if suddenly because some manufacturer screwed up, you have to have them yanked out. It becomes a matter of equity – they should be “made whole” by the wrong that was done to them, and this offer is really only doing half the job.
Sure, it’s all legal ease, but I guarantee that’s the angle these women’s lawyers will be taking, and that they should in order to make their clients whole again.
