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KIRKSVILLE, MO --  

It'll cost you more for that summer glow if you use a tanning bed.
   
As part of the new health care bill, there will be a 10 percent tanning tax starting in July. Doctors say tanning is an image issue that isn't worth the dangers of ultraviolet rays, like deadly melanoma and other types of skin cancer.

“There's this push to say that a tan skin is a healthy skin and that's not the message that we want to put out there. We want children and parents to understand that tanning is not healthy, that look that you see of the tan skin is the future kind of leathery cancered skin, it's not the image of health,” said Richard Besser, M.D, Medical Editor, ABC News.
    
Health experts hope the 10 percent tax will stop people from hitting the tanning salon.
    
Besser says the safest way to darken your skin is by getting a spray-on tan because it doesn't put you at risk for cancer. But, no type of tan protects your skin from the sun, so you should always use sun block.