If you're in the UK, there are regional differences in the funding of elective hernia surgery. Some clinical commissioning bodies do not fund uncomplicated hernias without any history of incarceration (which clearly is an indication for emergent surgery) and some will.
However, bilateral hernias are usually deemed 'worthy' of funding.
Moreover, in today's increasingly competitive environment even within the confines of the NHS, hernia repairs are increasingly performed by consultants, to meet production and quality targets. This is especially true for laparoscopic repair which is quite a specialised procedure which is not offered by everyone. So I wouldn't worry too much about being palmed off to a junior trainee!
That said, there are definitely registrars who by virtue of being more recent in their training and having larger current volumes are better hernia surgeons than their bosses, who may normally on a day-to-day basis do highly specialised e.g. colorectal or hepatobiliary surgery and only do a few hernias 'as and when'...