| There are only fifteen states in the US that have | | | | as much as $34,000 and weren't done yet! Another |
| laws in place to include fertility treatments in their | | | | California hopeful reported a deal she had found that |
| insurance coverage. However, it seems that 3 out of | | | | was $22,900 for 6 cycles with a 100% money back |
| those states do not cover the cost of IVF. In fact, | | | | guarantee if she did not "bring a baby home from the |
| everything to do with IVF is specifically excluded. | | | | hospital." This seems some consolation, at least. |
| Possible motivations for not covering IVF could be: | | | | An Iowa patient reported in at $18,000; in Northern |
| - it is risky, in that it often takes several cycles to | | | | Colorado there is someone who is now pregnant at a |
| "take" and even then there's no guarantee the baby | | | | cost of $20,000 and a Pennsylvania mom facing |
| will be carried to term | | | | $12,000 per cycle if she commits to doing 3 of them. |
| - extremely expensive | | | | These and other numbers will be tabulated, and |
| - those states simply don't need more people; their | | | | eventually made available in one convenient place, as |
| infrastructure can only just keep up with the | | | | yet to be determined. |
| constant influx of folks as it is. Which are these | | | | With these kinds of huge dollar figures, and so few |
| states that refuse to contribute to the cost of IVF? | | | | states requiring insurance companies to cover fertility |
| California, Louisiana and New York | | | | treatment, it is not wonder that the whole concept |
| The remaining 12 states that do have laws in place to | | | | of Medical Tourism has become mainstream. A round |
| cover fertility treatments, including all currently | | | | of IVF in India can cost as little as $3,000. Is that |
| understood methods of assisted reproduction | | | | what we want in America? To force our people to |
| technology (ART) are | | | | go abroad to get what should be their birthright - the |
| Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New | | | | chance to have a family of their own. It's like we're |
| Jersey, Maryland, Arkansas, Ohio, West Virginia, | | | | embarrassed for these people and want them to go |
| Illinois, Texas, Montana and Hawaii | | | | get it all organized in private... the way people used to |
| In a recent survey, (August 2010) currently in | | | | go "take the waters" in Switzerland to dry out! Surely |
| process via a Facebook page for IVF support, | | | | this is not the way for a 21st century super power |
| California came in as the most expensive state, with | | | | to behave? |
| one set of would-be parents found their cost of IVF | | | | |