You get what you pay for!
I had plastic surgery from a Naval Plastic Surgeon. I had 3 proceedures done...I was going to have a 4th (4th being the breast job) but I had all 3 proceedures done at the same time and I was on the operating table for 8 and a half hours, with a dangerously low body temperature, so they ended up not doing the breast job. I had to pay for my elective proceedures. Of course, it was a fraction of the price of what it would have cost me in the private sector...but it was still around $1000 a proceedure. Later, after trying to get my money back for the breast job I never received, we discovered that these doctors were charging different prices for the same proceedures depending on who the patient was. For example, a high ranking officer's wife could get her breasts done free if the surgeon wanted! I wasn't involved in the investigation, but I did open a huge can of worms regarding the matter. Not to mention, they screwed up my surgery BIG time! I guess you get what you pay for! Now I am so angry with the military because my child needs plastic surgery on a large facial tumor which, although it's not cancerous, it does cause her problems wearing bike helmets, and it is VERY noticable, and they are trying to tell me they may not remove it because it's an "elective" proceedure! They will do breast jobs on the officer's wives, but they won't help out a child with a serious problem? What a horrible system!