Infertility Insurance Guaranteed for Everyone?
Could insurance toward infertility treatments be soon available to everyone? Maybe, if the Family Building Act gets passed.
The Family Building Act, introduce by U.S. Sen. Kristin Gillibrand (D-New York), would require insurance companies who offer basic OB/GYN services to also provide infertility treatment. You can read the bill here.
Personally, I think this is an excellent idea. The ability to have children is a basic right, one which shouldn’t be limited to only those who can afford fertility treatments.
In a press release, Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-New York) said, “The costs of having fertility treatments can be staggering, but children are priceless. Wealth should not determine who can and who cannot fully exhaust the medical treatments available to people who want to have a child.”
What do you think? Should infertility be a condition insurance companies must cover?
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(Hat tip to the About.com Guide to U.S. Government, where I first read about this new bill.)
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