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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A human will put far more value back into a nation than even the most expensive IVF procedures. I'm all for reduced government spending, but funds spent on increasing birthrates is just about the best investment a government can make, even if it takes 20+ years to bear fruit.
Of course, falling birthrates are the (main) excuse given for flooding western nations with immigrants so (as with a lot of things) spotting the longer term pattern of destabilization behind such decisions is pretty straightforward.