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What Thousands Of Women Told HHS About The Limits Of IVF

Infertility is not a stand-alone disease but a symptom of underlying conditions. Women are simply asking for it to be treated as such.

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Rates of infertility continue to rise, with one in six American couples struggling to have children. For years, they have brought their questions to a system built to manage symptoms, not truly diagnose and treat the underlying causes. This year, for the first time, the federal government asked them a question instead: What kind of care do you want? Nearly 5,000 Americans answered.

In May, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury proposed an “excepted fertility benefit”: an optional, fully customizable benefit that employers could offer alongside a major medical plan, much the way dental and vision coverage works today. The proposal grew out of President Trump’s executive order on expanding access to IVF, but as calls for root-cause restorative care grew louder, the rule’s scope grew with them. As proposed, covered services must be for the “diagnosis, mitigation, or treatment of infertility or infertility-related reproductive health conditions,” many of them written into the text of the rule itself.

When the comment period closed on July 13, the docket held 4,652 comments. For context, about 80 percent of federal proposed rules draw 10 or fewer. By two preliminary AI-assisted counts, at least 62 percent called for greater access to root-cause care, including fertility awareness-based methods, body literacy, treatment of underlying reproductive health conditions, and asked that restorative reproductive medicine (RRM) be named and promoted in the final rule.

The Personal Stories Within Each Comment

What is so striking, however, is that these thousands of comments did not merely call for restorative reproductive medicine. They were also filled with personal stories from patients about how this approach enabled them to heal their bodies, conceive naturally, and live healthier, fuller lives than they would have relying on traditional IVF protocols.

One woman struggling with miscarriages was told by her OBGYN that standard care meant they would not run tests........

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