Hair transplants should be covered by insurance

[monkey18]

Over the last few weeks I have seriously started to research getting a hair transplant. I started loosing my hair at 19, and now at 27 have little hair on the top of my head (NW 5A).

Modern day insurance plans cover all kinds of procedures that are more expensive and technically not medically necessary than hair restoration. Treatment for addiction, alcoholism, and drug abuse is covered. People who use their freewill to make stupid decisions have the ability for insurance to cover their treatment, where we do not.

Cosmetic breast reconstruction due to cancer (life threatening or not) in women is covered. Breast cancer is genetic, exactly like adrogenic alopecia. I feel that every woman who has had a mastectomy can live just as fulfilling of a life without a breast as I can without hair.

Like many of you, I surfer from the daily psychological and personal stress that has come with my hair loss. I don't understand why I have to pay for health insurance when it wont pay for treatment of a genetic disease I did not choose to be afflicted with.

Does anyone have any suggestions, or agree? Has anyone ever forced their insurance company into paying for treatment?