IVF Poll

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[Poll #271874]

Feel free to be honest! A good friend of mine defended the "no" vote to me recently, and I can see her point in that IVF is a "luxury" intervention - you are not curing a life threatening illness, you are just helping a couple indulge in their dream of a child.

Comments

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I'm going to take the truly psychological approach to this question and wonder why you're asking this. Granted, it's a very interesting issue. I'm not even sure how I would answer it because there are a lot of gray areas and I'm not familiar with the types of things that the NHS covers.

I'm leaning towards "yes". Infertility *is* a medical problem and therefore should be covered along with other medical problems. Here in the states, most medical insurance policies will not cover "luxury" treatments such as non-medical related plastic surgery, yet you'd be hard pressed to find a health insurance policy that would *not* cover infertility treatments. It's perfectly reasonable IMO and in the opinion of the IHS.

But back to the original question, I hope this doesn't have any major bearing on your decision to consider IVF. If you have this option available to you and you really want to go this route, I definitely think you should take advantage of the NHS coverage and not feel guilty about it.

I'm sorry if I'm making an assumption that is totally off-base. Please tell me to piss off if I am. :-)