Gay Couples Will Receive Fertility Coverage Under New State Law
Unmarried and gay couples will be ensured the same access to insurance coverage for fertility treatments as heterosexual couples under a bill California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday.
Authored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco), AB 460, clarifies the non-discrimination provision of an existing California law that requires health plans to cover fertility treatments, excluding in vitro fertilization.
“Reproductive medicine is for everybody’s benefit,” Ammiano said in a statement. “To restrict fertility coverage solely to heterosexual married couples violates California’s non-discrimination laws. I wrote this bill to correct that.”
One complication for gay couples has been that insurance coverage of fertility treatments typically does not kick in until couples have tried to conceive naturally for 12 months, the Associated Press reports. This has left some gay couples facing fertility treatments costing up to tens of thousands of dollars.
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“Unmarried and gay couples will be ensured the same access to insurance coverage for fertility treatments as heterosexual couples under a bill California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Tuesday.”
Does this go for gay male couples too?
That should be their first clue.