News: Insurance


Updated: Jul 16/10


Australia
Opposition threatens to block Australian IVF bill (Aug 24/09. BioNews #522)

Canada

Funding fertility: the fight to have treatments covered (Aug 20/09. Globe & Mail)
Expert Panel Releases Report on Infertility & Adoption in Ontario (Aug 26/09. Press Release)
• Ontario: Raising Expectations: Recommendations of the Expert Panel on Infertility & Adoption
  (Aug 26/09)
Quebec may to offer free IVF (Mar 14/10. BioNews)
Manitoba: Fertility Treatment Tax Credit (posted Mar 29/10)
The right to bear children and, of course, we'll pay (By Margaret Wente. Feb 23/10. Globe & Mail)
Saying 'no' to the funding of assisted reproduction services in Québec (A commentary by Prof Abby Lippman, McGill University; FQPN. May 25/10. BioNews 560)
Quebec women to get free [IVF] fertility treatments (Jul 13/10. Canadian Press) 
Quebec funds IVF … and manages to make life worse for infertile couples (By Marni Soupcoff. Jul 14/10. National Post)
• Quebec: No private options for in-vitro (Jul 14/10. Montreal Gazette)

Denmark
Danish government cuts funding for IVF (Jun 5/10. BioNews 561)
 
UK
Direct health services costs of providing assisted reproduction services in older women (Mar 3/09. Fertility & Sterility)