WH Won’t Fulfill Trump’s Pledge Of IVF Coverage

The Washington Post reports:

The White House does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization services, two people with knowledge of internal discussions said, even though the idea was one of President Donald Trump’s key campaign pledges.

Last year, Trump said that if he returned to office, the government would either pay for IVF services or issue rules requiring insurance companies to cover treatment for it. The pledge came as Trump faced political blowback over abortion rights after his appointees to the Supreme Court helped overturn Roe v. Wade.

“The government is going to pay for it, or we’re going to get — we’ll mandate your insurance company to pay for it, which is going to be great. We’re going to do that,” Trump said in August 2024. “We want to produce babies in this country, right?”

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Senate Republicans once again rejected an opportunity to protect access to IVF.

This is a complete and utter disregard for a woman’s right to make decisions about her own body, her own family, and her own future. pic.twitter.com/DdLFiKpIgq

— The White House 46 Archived (@WhiteHouse46) September 18, 2024