Don’t have fertility issues but was browsing my coverage for some other stuff and went down a rabbit hole. I have really really good health insurance that is probably better than 99% of Americans so I’m sure it’s true for everyone else. This is honestly super sad considering I have several coworkers that battled with infertility and spend THOUSANDS of dollars out of pocket to finally have their children. But they’ll pay for you to mutilate your body and even fly you to have the procedure done. Unbelievable.
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I get that but there are a lot of other expensive treatments that insurance does cover.
If it's rare then they can cover it for "cheap" in a sense. The less likely it is then the lower the cost.
If you have 1000 insured and a $20 procedure everyone gets the expected cost is $20. If you have a $2000 procedure that only .1% of the population gets then the expected cost is $2. So even though it's an expensive procedure expected costs are low so they can afford it. Only a small portion of the population is trans so it makes for a cheap virtue signal. It's still a terrible agenda to push though.
Yup. And now there’s is a lg portion of women having fertility issues nowadays.
The “Fertility Industrial Complex” is a Billion $ industry in the USA Today.
Doctors offices are packed to the brim, women & men are treated w little respect & given much fear from the onset... telling couples from the beginning that their chances are less than 2% of it working...so y’all keep coming back now, ya hear!
The next thing they’re pushing is egg donation ...where it’s an egg from another person. This surgery is prob much more costly than even IVF.
A vicious cycle of hormones, defeatist talk from doctors, and intense stress, creates more infertility for these couples.
It’s so sad!
The average age of a women who gets married is 27...up from 20 since 1960(i think).
The problem is older women or have children too late
Why just blame women? Everyone is getting married later. People act like it’s our (women’s) choice to wait so long. I would have gotten married at 24 if I had known ANY guys in my city willing to settle down that young. And I didn’t want to marry a guy 10 years older than me because I don’t want to be a young widow.
Then crowd source it. We aren't Communists here