Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Donald Trump, in an attempt to reduce the significant gender gap in the presidential election and neutralize one of the biggest Republican liabilities, unleashed a surprise promise last week. If elected, he said he would either have the government pay directly for in vitro fertilization treatments or mandate that insurance companies cover it. Currently, relatively few insurers cover IVF and the government provides no assistance for a procedure that can cost around $20,000 per cycle. This is Trump we’re talking about, so I don’t have to tell you that there were no specifics. ‘We need great children, beautiful children in our country, we actually need them,’ Trump told NBC News, the clear product of weeks if not months of deep policy analysis. And this proposal didn’t emerge during the four years Trump was actually president.” (09/03/24)
https://prospect.org/health/2024-09-03-trumps-ivf-ideas-republicans-rejected/