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Fertility Notes- a fertility blog with all the news your womb can use

May 31st, 2008

Show Your Support for HR 2892 The Family Building Act

There she goes again, talking about the need for insurance coverage for fertility treatments. What a broken record.
Yes, you’re right. It is a topic I cover often here - this crazy notion that your reproductive health is just as important as other (covered) aspects of your health and well-being.
But, I do find great comfort […]

By Gabrielle -- 5 comments

April 15th, 2008

Happy Tax Day - Did You Remember To Claim Your Medical Expenses?

It’s April 15 and accountants and taxpayers across America are either breathing a sigh of relief or scrambling to help their clients or themselves get to the post office with their completed income tax forms by midnight tonight.
I am guessing that if you are like me, and Mother Nature is not the only person you […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

January 29th, 2008

Infertility in Insurance - a Privilege or a Right?

Do you think health insurance should cover infertility treatments?

Yes, it is a medical condition

Yes, within very specific parameters

No, it is a lifestyle choice

It doesn’t really matter to me

No, insurance should cover less not more

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By Gabrielle -- 10 comments

January 16th, 2008

What Curious Relationships Us Women Have with Our Wombs.

What curious relationships us women have with our wombs.
I bet our adolescent and teen years really weren’t all that different. Those were the years when the fear of pregnancy hung over your head like a guillotine.
Are you really going out dressed like that? You’re going to get yourself pregnant!
Don’t hang out with […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

January 5th, 2008

Use Your FSA to Fund Your Fertility

My health insurance is great. But like most, it will not cover fertility treatments. (In fact, my gynecologist’s office had to do some “creative coding” to even get some of the preliminary bloodwork reimbursed.) My credit union credit card has a great rate, but monthly finance charges still stack up quick when your balance […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

December 31st, 2007

Baby, Let Me Know. You’ll Let Me Know….

Girl hol-la!
If I did this right, you’re listening to Aaliyah’s We Need a Resolution (or will be, once you click Play). Because I’ve been singing it to myself all morning in preparation for this post.

I need some resolutions.
How about these?

Under promise; over deliver.

At work. At home. With friends. With colleagues. With bosses. I am the […]

By Gabrielle -- 2 comments

December 7th, 2007

Jestem Polka - Poland Proposes Reimbursement for IVF Treatments

This is excerpted from this week’s Polish Market Review:

 
Poland’s new health minister, Ewa Kopacz, is in favour of in-vitro fertilisation being reimbursed from the country’s budget. As many as one million Polish couples suffer from infertility, but only 3,500 a year are able to afford the artificial fertilisation procedure.
 
According to Ms Kopacz, in the initial […]

By Gabrielle -- 0 comments

October 22nd, 2007

Financial Assistance for Fertility Treatments

One of my first posts here at Fertility Notes was on the Family Building Act of 2007, legislation which would require the 90% of private insurance companies that don’t currently cover fertility treatments to do so.
If you aren’t among the lucky customers of the other 10%, there are places you can go to apply for […]

By Gabrielle -- 5 comments