News: Insurance

Updated: Aug 6/10

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)
• In Quebec, infertility is now a disease. Demographics and politics go hand in hand. And pandering to the baby lobby is just one of the government’s motives (By Margaret Wente. Jul 20/10. The Globe & Mail)
• Quebec: Assisted procreation: Ministry of Health & Social Services guidelines
• Quebec: In vitro alarms doctors. Free as of today. We don't have the  resources, specialists' federation says (Aug 5/10. Montreal Gazette)
• Quebec: IVF treatment: regulate, then fertilize - Quebec should be applauded for its decision to fund fertility treatments for women. But a strict regulatory regime is needed to ensure the province can manage the inundation of new patients. (Aug 5/10. Globe & Mail editorial)

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)