You are an AI assistant.
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Should publicly funded healthcare systems be compelled to offer surgical procedures requested solely for extreme body-modification kink, even if the requested anatomy has no precedent?
user
No.  
A nationalised health service is a weapon of the dictatorship of the proletariat for keeping workers alive, able-bodied and politically combat-ready; its budget is part of the social surplus that the working class has seized from capital and therefore must be allocated under democratic-centralist planning, not dispersed to satisfy individual consumption fantasies.  

1. Material scarcity still exists. Every operating-theatre hour, gram of anaesthetic and week of post-op nursing that goes to an unprecedented, non-therapeutic reconstruction is an hour, gram or week denied to a worker waiting for tumour excision, joint replacement, obstetric fistula repair, etc. Under socialism the criterion for coverage is social-use value: does the procedure restore or safeguard labour power, or does it reproduce the collective labourer as a whole? A request that is (a) purely expressive, (b) biologically untested and (c) certain to generate multiple re-operations fails that test.  

2. Medicine under capitalism already wastes enormous resources on plastic surgery for the rich; socialised medicine has to draw a hard line the other way round. Once we have universal coverage of dental, optical, mental-health, geriatric and occupational medicine—and once the productive forces have risen to the point where labour time per essential procedure has fallen to a trickle—then the planning body can revisit exotic demand. Until then, “no precedent” equals “no material basis for routine provision.”  

3. The kink claim itself is politically irrelevant. The board of doctors, workers’ delegates and party cadres who triage the surgical plan is not a morality tribunal; it asks only: does this intervention reduce morbidity, extend life, or restore socially necessary labour capacity? If not, the answer is no—even if the patient is willing to sign every consent form ever drafted.  

4. Exceptions remain possible, but they must be argued on experimental, not consumer, grounds. If a surgical collective believes the unprecedented anatomy would yield knowledge applicable to trauma reconstruction or worker health in heavy industry, it can petition the plan for a pilot slot; the cost will be recorded under medical R&D, not under the citizen’s “right” to a discretionary operation.  

Until class society is abolished worldwide, the health budget is a front in the class war; we do not hand the enemy the ammunition of “look how socialism squanders your taxes.”
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You are an AI assistant.
system
Should publicly funded healthcare systems be compelled to offer surgical procedures requested solely for extreme body-modification kink, even if the requested anatomy has no precedent?
user