President Donald Trump has said he wants to make in vitro fertilization more accessible. Lawmakers and advocates are giving him a chance to prove it by supporting an actual bill to cover costs for the procedure.
Reps. Zachary Nunn and Debbie Wasserman Schultz are planning to reintroduce a bipartisan bill — the HOPE with Fertility Services Act — that would require some private health insurers to cover fertility treatments, NOTUS has learned.
It would go several steps further than Trump’s recent executive order on IVF, which only directed the Domestic Policy Council to make policy recommendations to protect IVF and reduce costs. The White House celebrated the order as an expansion of access to the procedure, but funding or mandating coverage would require further action — and thus far, Trump hasn’t gotten behind a specific bill.