OK, the source here is “The Sun,” a British tabloid given to dubious journalism and photos of women in various advanced states of undress. That said, if this article is accurate, it is a rather disturbing indication of just how screwed up government-run healthcare can be.
The short form is: in Britain, the NHS (National Health Service) will give out taxpayer funded boob jobs. That is, they will give breast implants up to at least DD to women who want to be models. But at the same time, they have turned down a request for a breast reduction for a woman with 32H breasts who is in agony and had to give up her child-care job because of back pain.
That’s government for you. Do you want something for purposes of vanity? Sure, here’s a shovelfull of tax dollars (pounds, whatever). Do you need something that will, if you get it, keep you a productive worker and off the ole? Naw, nothing for you.
(In the interests of openness, I neither want nor need larger or smaller boobs. And while I recognize that breast reductions can be a source of great sadness for straight men around the world, I also know that they are sometimes necessary. It’s one of the great crimes of nature that something so awesome can be a source of physical and emotional pain. Grrr. Stoopid reality. See, this is one more important reason why we need to become a spacefaring civilization just as soon as possible… so that lower-gravity living becomes a reality.)