We should pay so that others may have kids

[Dreepa]

Last Sunday there was a article in the CM about people trying to have babies:

http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060514/REPOSITORY/605140376&SearchID=73245447691083

Quote from Senator Martha Clark (D-  Portsmouth)
"Why are you willing to pay for all of the diagnosis for infertility and lead the woman right up to the final answer and say, 'Yeah there is a fertility problem and we're not going to solve it," Fuller Clark said. "We shouldn't be making it more difficult and blaming women when they can't get pregnant that somehow it's their fault."

Yeah we should pay for them. (MA does pay according to the article)

[d_goddard]

God I hope the Socialists don't take the Senate in November.

[aries]

I'm placing the blame on women who can't bear children squarely on the women. If you wanted to bear children, then certainly you would petition NASA to develop a time machine, so you could go back in time and lobby the government, perhaps even the framers of our constitution, to mandate that everything in life be fair, equal and balanced.

[president]

Yeah we should pay for them. (MA does pay according to the article)

You are an insurance company?

I'm not.

Is someone preventing these people from changing insurance companies?

[Dreepa]

If the ins. companies were forced to provide this coverage (they don't in NH) then the ins. companies would probably raise rates.  Which means that I would have to pay more for ins.

If you want a kid that bad then you can pay. Aren't there tons of kids to be adopted?

My favorite thing though is when people who take the fertility drugs and then have 8 babies and say 'It was a miracle from God'.
No you weren't listening... God didn't want you to have babies that is why you had to take the drugs.

[president]

Does NH force ins. companies to cover anything today?

[mvpel]

If adoption wasn't such an unmitigated hassle, perhaps the medical system wouldn't be siphoning off vast sums of money from hopeful would-be parents for a roll of the dice.

[Marcy]

I don't work in health insurance now, but I did throughout the 90's (in NH) and yes, NH does mandate some things.  I'm not sure if they are still mandated or what has been added, but I believe the state required coverage for pap smears and mammograms, and required insurance companies to recognize social workers and nurse practitioners as covered providers.  It's not a lot compared to other states but it is done here.

Infertility is a medical condition: the body parts don't function as they should to produce the desired results.  That justifes medical intervention -- but does not require that all of us need to reach into our pockets to pay for it. Interestingly, I've talked to many infertile women agonizing over their childlessness and when I suggested that they might want to take that love and give it to a kid in an orphanage (Big Brothers/Big Sisters, Little League coaching, lots of volunteer possibilities), they've looked at me as though I had 3 heads.  Tells me much of the "dynasitc urge" is possessive  -- not sure that is a good thing.

I, by the way, am raising a child I did not give birth to.  We are proof you don't have to go through the birthing experience together to be bonded.

[Dreepa]

 I agree that infertility is a medical condition. So is near sightedness (should lasik be covered?), pattern baldness (should drugs and or wigs be covered?)  The list goes on.


I demand that my XXL shirts be the same price as S shirts.  It is not MY fault that I am taller.   

Marcy welcome.