While Donald Trump is claiming he has kept more promises made, among the promises he hasn’t kept so far is either the government or insurance paying for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment. It should be fairly obvious he wasn’t going to keep it considering he had this level information when proposed it:
what we’re going to do is for people that are using IVF, which is fertilization, we are govern the government is going to pay for it or we’re going to get or mandate your insurance company to pay for it, which is going to be great. We’re going to do that.
When last we covered what was going on, his spokesperson didn’t seem to understand the difference between IVF and an abortion drug.
Nearly two weeks later, he had an Oval Office announcement about IVF, where Heidi Overton, Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said that Donald Trump had tasked his administration with a much less ambitious task: “So you asked us to lower costs and to fix the broken incentives in health care.”
The announcement involved a claim that an IVF drug would be cheaper in some circumstances and “a new legal pathway to offer fertility benefits directly to employees,” though right after that, the White House was claiming that many employers already provide coverage even without that.
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