Big breasts not a health problem
says German court
November 19th, 2008
Having extremely large breasts is not an illness and an operation to reduce their size is therefore not covered by German state health insurance, a court said Wednesday.
A regional court in the western city of Darmstadt rejected the claim of a 37-year-old woman who had been advised by several doctors to have breast reduction surgery to alleviate back pain and the social stigma she suffered.
Her health insurance plan rejected her application and she took it to court.
The judge said in a written ruling that such procedures may only be covered if the bosom’s size can be considered a physical deformation or leads to other health problems.
The court also found that “oversized breasts” were only to blame for back pain “in cases in which they were grossly disproportional to the dimensions of the rest of the body”.
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