Many do not realize that skin cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in the United States, accounting for more than 1 million new cases annually and costing billions of dollars to detect and treat. The American Cancer Society estimates that …
Read Original Story: Senate's Proposed Tax on Indoor Tanning: Potential Lifesaver and Fundraiser – Huffington Post (blog)

Democrats replace the ‘botax’ on cosmetic procedures with a 10% sales tax on the use of tanning beds, citing skin cancer concerns. The tax would raise an estimated $2.7 billion over 10 years. By Kim Geiger Reporting from Washington – Citing concerns …
Read Original Story: Senate plan would tax tanning services – Los Angeles Times

Amid the Senate’s wrangling over health-care reform, one winner that emerges is Allergan Pharmaceuticals (AGN) with the elimination of the so-called botox tax, which the proposed legislation would replace with a levy on artificial …
Read Original Story: New Wrinkle in Health-Care Bill: Botox OK, Tanning Salons Not – Barron's (blog)

Look – I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a frequent or even occasional visitor to the tanning salon. Any tan I have usually ends where my bicycle shorts and t-shirt sleeves start and my eyes often peer out of twin white rings resulting from the …
Read Original Story: Why pick on tanning salons? – The Progressive Pulse (blog)

An interesting tidbit about the Senate healthcare bill that you may find fascinating or maddening depending on your political stripe is the tanning bed tax that will be levied on people who are looking for that summertime glow. …
Read Original Story: Senate Healthcare Bill Tanning Bed Tax: Yes You Heard Me Right – The Admonition (blog)

Dr. Seth Forman says ditching the cosmetic surgery tax for a new tanning tax could help save lives. (PRNewsChannel) / December 21, 2009 / Tampa, Fla. / Tampa dermatologist Dr. Seth Forman says the cosmetic surgery industry received an early Christmas …
Read Original Story: Tampa Dermatologist Touts Tanning Tax Proposed By Congress, Glad To See … – PR NewsChannel (press release)

I’m kind of sorry the Senate health care bill got rid of the "bo-tax" on plastic surgery. Would have been decent way to raise revenue on something nobody except plastic surgeons and Joan Rivers would call a necessity. But the Senate bill now has a 10 …
Read Original Story: Indoor tanning trade has more threats than Baltimore – Baltimore Sun (blog)

The latest proposal to help pay for health care reform will hit tanning salons – or, more accurately, those who bronze themselves indoors rather than under the sun. In the final version of the Senate health care bill released …
Read Original Story: Tax on tanning booths proposed to help pay for health care – Las Vegas Sun

Over the weekend, US Senate Democrats removed a proposed 5% tax on all elective cosmetic surgery, replacing it with a last-minute provision that would tax the use of tanning beds. Senate Democrats cite the reasoning for the “Tan Tax” is the increased …
Read Original Story: New Senate health bill includes tanning tax – Examiner.com

(PRNewsChannel) / December 19, 2009 / Tampa, Fla. / In what can best be described as a bittersweet victory because he’s opposed to the health care bill that appears to have the necessary votes to pass, a Tampa doctor says he’s pleased the tax on Botox …
Read Original Story: Health Care Bill Reaction: Doctor Hails Tan Tax; Relieved 'Botax' Surgically … – PR NewsChannel (press release)