IVF in the USA, who pays for it?
A decade has passed since the first American 'test-tube baby' was born at the Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. The announcement of this medical achievement was an excellent source of inspiration for many legal scholars to write about the problems of IVF. The Spanish, English and Swedish legislators were the first to be seduced by these scholars. They enacted very sophisticated statutes concerning fertilization and embryology. The American legislation did not seem (at first sight) to fall under the spell of lawyers. In this article, it is shown how more and more American state legislators, by enacting statutes to mandate insurers to cover IVF treatment, are indirectly regulating IVF.
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Centre of Biomedical Ethics, KU Leuven, Belgium.
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005307:Fertilization in Vitro; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007342:Insurance Benefits / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D007349:Insurance, Health, Reimbursement / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States