Lookism as Health Entitlement

Governments may start treating appearance‑related harms (e.g., male pattern hair loss) as public‑health issues because lookism produces measurable economic and psychological disadvantages. That reframes cosmetic interventions from optional consumer spending to potential entitlement claims, forcing trade‑offs about who pays, clinical thresholds, and upstream anti‑discrimination remedies. — If states accept lookism‑based coverage claims, it will alter health budgets, widen definitions of medical necessity, and create precedents for other appearance‑linked treatments to seek public funding.