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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Shouldn’t be covered by insurance. It’s voluntary. Elective plastic surgery shouldn’t either. No one should have to socialize this cost. [/quote]

I don't want to pay for your Viagra.  I don't want to pay for your pregnancy.  I don't want to pay for your diabetes.  I don't want to pay for your cancer.  I don't want to pay for any treatment for your measles or your mumps or your rubella or your polio.  Etc.[/quote]

Good news. I don’t have any of those. IVF is very very expensive and creates a lot of perverse incentives if insufficient copays. It’s elective. Sorry not sorry — if you want to pursue it, then you need to finance it yourself. Having kids isn’t a right  [/quote]

I didn’t know this until I had infertility, but some treatments that might have been used before IVF just aren’t used anymore because IVF is safer and more effective (and probably cheaper tbh). For example, I had blocked fallopian tubes and my doctors didn’t have an explanation (I’ve never had an STD). In theory, there’s a procedure to unblock tubes, but why subject people to surgery (again, expensive and potentially risky) when IVF is much safer and has a better track record of success? I paid for my IVF out of pocket because none of the insurance plans offered through my employer would cover it, but it makes no sense that other treatment for reproductive conditions would be covered by insurance while the gold standard treatment is not [/quote]

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