Fertility Nation

Iva Skoch’s new Newsweek article on the high cost of IVF in the United States makes some really great points. One point that bears repeating is that that the cost of IVF in the U.S. won’t be affordable by the masses until we can find a way to create more reproductive endocrinologists and other fertility [...]

A while back I asked if infertility treatments would be covered under the new health care reform bill. We now have an answer, and it’s a not good one if you’re infertile. According to Susan Donaldson James at ABC News, there is nothing in the new health reform care bill that mandates insurance companies cover [...]

Update after health care reform passed: Even After Health Care Reform, Insurance Companies Don’t Have to Cover Infertility It depends, according to this report by Sabrina Eaton in The Cleveland Plain Dealer. During the election campaign, President Obama told Planned Parenthood that he supported expanding “reproductive services” and including them in his proposed reforms to [...]