How families cope with the financial cost of IVF
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- The "Facing Fertility" series explores the soaring costs of IVF during World Infertility Awareness Month. With an average cost of $20,000 per round, IVF is out of reach for many. CBS News' Nikki Battiste shares the story of one woman who faced financial and emotional challenges after Medicaid denied coverage for her treatments.
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If your on Medicaid you don't need more kids. If you can't afford it then you don't need kids. I'm dealing sorry this right now but I'm not on Medicaid. I had my last one paying several thousands in treatments, but I'm assistance and am on no type of assistance.
Why should anyone expect that Medicaid should pay for IVF? Your on government assistance because you can’t work to get medical care through an employer… so, tax payers should be responsible for paying for you to conceive through this expensive method? Huh?
Entitled people at its finest. go figure
That’s a misconception that folks on Medicaid don’t work 😂 during the pandemic millions of Americans were on Medicaid because everyone qualified if they were on unemployment. Also not sure if you knew but 70% of insurances through employers don’t included IVF coverage.
I'd argue the fact that Medicaid COVERS your mistake when you had the RESPONSIBILITY to use protection is just as puzzling, we'll help you cover up your mistake but we won't help you try and concieve, responsiblty. Respectfully, a tax payer who wonders why I have to pay for people's mistakes lol.
@@Thebestmom04the video says she doesnt work.
@@alesia912you didn’t watch the whole video didn’t you?? Also it says 2021 that’s. Few years ago. I belive they said 70% of companies don’t offer ivf as a medical benefit. So regardless it’s messed up
IVF mom here and I think yes, insurance should cover IVF but Medicaid should not cover it, even Starbucks has IVF help
Having kids is a choice and Medicare shouldn’t be required to cover it.
I would rather they cover adoption. The career I'm going into has adoption coverage! If IVF is so taxing to your health make adoptions be your first choice if you can't have a child! " Oh yeah we adopted after trying for 13 years and lost 3 kids even with IVF baby so you were the LAST option for me to feel like a parent. I love you" like wtf
So should high blood pressure and cholesterol meds not be covered too because people make the CHOICE not to live a healthy lifestyle. Many things in life are a choice.
Yup
@@Thebestmom04 Did you know that high blood pressure (HBP) can be influenced by genetics? It's incorrect to assume that everyone with high blood pressure has it solely due to a poor diet. Please get informed.
@@Thebestmom04these can be caused by genetics!!! I know a girl who is as skinny as a stick that has super high cholesterol and is on medication. Please educate yourself.
She should look into working at Starbucks even part time workers get IVF covered through medical plan and there have been several Starbucks babies
Starbucks wouldn’t hire me 😂
Amazon and Target also offer IVF benefits at less than full time.
This lady seems selfish. Everything is about HER and what she wants. She’s really going to spend a bunch of money to have another kid while having to care for a disabled child already. That’s not fair to her living child or the potential child. She just wants more kids without thinking about how it affects her son and his future.
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Entitlement is a big problem in US. Beside caring for her needed son, she blames taxes payers don’t want to pay for her elective pregnancy procedure. Then she want tax payers to pay for her assistance in caring for her kid.
Kids are expensive. Make them when you can afford them. No one owe anyone anything.
@@annat6249 ignorance is also a big problem in Amerikkka. Where did it state the tax payers are supporting her son. Jesus Christ folks assumed so much from this choppy interview that barely explained everything. But let me guess let’s keep sending tax paper money to Israel and Ukraine. Being on Medicaid doesn’t mean living off the government. People can work and still qualify for Medicaid.
She should give all her money to you. How dare she have a human drive want to fulfill it yep selfish only to people who think like you though.
She Didn't even just pay for it. She got a loan. She can't afford it. What is she going to do if a huge emergency comes up? What if, god forbid, she somehow finds herself a single mother one day with two kids and potentially a lot of debt? This doesn't seem to be something she thought through at all
At least you have one child, imagine all of us who would just be happy that we were blessed with one child.
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exactly
If you can't afford IVF how can you afford a kid? I don't get it.
How do you not understand a human drive it's like wanting food water and love. Who are you to say anyone doesn't deserve the human right to want to procreate. Most people can't afford to take care of lots of things for lack of money, it doesn't mean there not gonna try.
This is a non thoughtful question.
@@Rene-cn4jcHow do you figure? The cost of a having a kid is significantly more than IVF. So if you can't swing the cost of IVF how are you going to raise and pay for a kid?
@@MM-yz7fz The cost of having a child does not hit you all at once like an IVF bill.
@@lady4191right
I feel for couples that want their own children but have trouble conceiving. There are so many children waiting to be adopted and loved. It’s a tough situation all around.
Adopting is way more expensive than fertility treatments. My cousin adopted and it was close to 80k
@@Thebestmom04 starting with foster care can make adoption more economical. It really depends and no situation is the same.
Nobody “needs” to have a baby.
That's a narcissist statement thinking you know what another person needs? self-important Ignorance must be your aesthetic
I want many things in life and yes, life is not fair. Adopt or foster if u can’t conceive naturally
Will its not aways easy
Having kids to fill that void? I feel bad for the kid.
no child can heal a broken heart. You need God for that not a child.
Sounds like she doesnt need another baby. On medicaid maybe dont have another kid.
I guess you didn’t see the whole video. They stated she’s working now 😂😂😂
@@Thebestmom04she should have waited to have a baby when she had a job instead of complaining about Medicaid ...
@@Thebestmom04I guess you didn't grasp the entire concept of the video 😂😂😂
@@juicysmith38235 but who said she currently had Medicaid? Or when she stated her “new job” or what if she had a job but they didn’t offer fertility benefits like it happens to millions of Americans. Ya quick to judge without knowing the whole story but let me guess pro life huh 😂😂😂😂
@@juicysmith38235 too many factors missing to this story before I jump to conclusions.
Adopt a child at that price!! Foster care will PAY YOU to foster a CHILD!!!
Kids in foster care aren't the responsibility of people who have infertility, can't we want our own children too??
@@xmiixmikux but when someone aborts y'all cry about it saying "don't throw away your baby!!! I'll adopt your baby" 😂😂😂😂
LMAO NO. your body ur choice. @hellobot67
@@xmiixmikux You can want them, but you obviously can't have them. Might as well adopt in that case.
@@xmiixmikux that's not what I see in the comments from people saying the suffer from trying to get a baby but everyone throws theirs away 😅
"She came to fix my broken heart."
Many of the children in foster care have areas of trauma even in their short lives, do you guys think that everyone with infertility is capable of working though another person's childs trauma that is mostly unknown to them? That's not fair to the child or the person thats being claimed should foster or adopt. You are also opening yourself up to constant home checks, background checks, additional therapy/ reunification therapy with their parents, the chance that you will get very attached and find a child that fits perfectly in your home just to have them returned to the situation at their real parents home and having to mourn that loss and just open your arms to another child after that.
There's way more into it than most people think about. In fact many going through infertility that are at the point of IVF have suffered at least one miscarriage, do you think that all of those that have lost a child would be emotionally ready to go through the trauma of having a child put into their lives and then taken from them over and over again as is the cycle of foster care?
The point of foster care in many peoples mind is to be a temporary housing until the home they grew up in has gone through extensive changes to be safer and a better fit for them, not so they could all be taken forever and just rehomed like lost pets. (Obviously it not saying thats always the case as there are a good number of families that will never be reunified for various reasons regurding the childs safety)
I do feel insurance should cover IVF but I 100% agree that it is no where near medicaids responsibility to cover IVF, if you can't hold down a job with isurance or can't manage paying for private insurance than you shouldnt be thinking about having a child.
I mean you don’t have to have a baby…plenty of babies and young children need parents
She wants her own
@@choosey87 An adopted child is still your own.
@@erikamarie3144 Not biologically
I think they should pay pay for it. They care so much about life why not?!
how are you on medicaid just for staying at home?
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Amen! So happy for you and your family
We will have to increase the premium of healthcare to pay. Some women try it multiple times at 15,000 to 20,000 a time.
On medicaid, not married and trying to have a second baby. Taking out loans to have fertility treatments, but on medicaid
Try other countries. China, India, South Africa, Nigeria
We have been TTC and haven't succeed yet, IVF it's too expensive. At sametime I feel like it's unfair someone got pregnant easly, dont need to pay and here , I feel like why should I pay $$$$$$$
Is it “safe?” The United States is not the only country that has “safe” medical care. Of course it’s safe to travel to other countries to receive affordable healthcare.
The “is it safe” felt to me as if the reporter thinks any healthcare outside of the United States is not safe 🙄🙄
Plenty of people in countries outside of the United States have “free healthcare” so IVF isn’t even a topic.
Do you think all the people on the planet who live outside of the United States are not receiving “safe” healthcare 🙄. Some communities do not have access to adequate healthcare but to think that entire countries outside of the United States do not have “safe” healthcare is ludicrous
people… try Spain for ivf. its great! also in her situation, apply for an IVF grant. they exist out there.
“They don’t want the poor to reproduce.” No, that’s not it.
Insurance should conver for IVF but medicaid??
Under no rational basis do you need to have a child so badly.
Something isn’t right about the mother. I’m glad she is employed. Infertility is not a disease! Some people are infertile as a result of intentional decisions. For example, if a male had a vasectomy for a long time then had a reversal it can take years for his body to readjust. The same applies to a woman. Some people elect to have a hysterectomy. The WHO ought to reclassify infertility in a manner that acknowledges the difference between degradation due to outside factors beyond an individual’s control and those due to an intentional act.
Usually, a woman has a hysterectomy because of a medical condition (ex. Cancer, bleeding, endometriosis, tumors, etc.). It’s not an elective type of decision, it’s a difficult decision.
I woke in healthcare. Endometriosis is a disease. There is currently no cure and no explanation to why it happens. That’s what they stated she had.
@@Sunrise-k56 right
People used to adopt.
Right
I’m so happy for her and her partner. Love and grace to them, and their beautiful children.
Trump will have this covered by insurance
should have started earlier in your life.
Should worry about your own life
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