Posted on 05/22/2019 1:05:09 PM PDT by C19fan
U.S. Democratic presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday proposed requiring insurance companies to cover expensive fertility treatments, part of a “Family Bill of Rights” that would also help with adoption and medical care.
Gillibrand, a U.S. senator from New York, has struggled to gain traction in the crowded field of more than 20 Democratic presidential candidates vying to challenge President Donald Trump. She recently became one of the most vocal candidates calling for access to abortion and criticizing laws like those passed in Alabama that would virtually ban on the practice.
“My new proposal, the Family Bill of Rights, will make all families stronger - regardless of who you are or what your zip code is - with a fundamental set of rights that levels the playing field starting at birth,” Gillibrand said in a statement.
Gillibrand would pay for the proposals by taxing financial transactions to generate an estimated $777 billion over the next decade. Senate Democrats have proposed a 0.03% “Robin Hood” tax on Wall Street transactions.
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Silly Gilly, there she goes again.
IVF is not a fertility treatment. Before IVF you can't conceive normally. During IVF you cannot conceive normally. And after IVF you cannot conceive normally.
It does not cure infertility.
Probably makes her feel better if she is supporting babies on one hand while she and her abortionist friends are killing babies on the other hand.
We just need free insurance that covers everything. That’s the ticket.
“If you need to treat a malfunctioning cervix or correct a progesterone deficiency, that’s true healing and curing because it restores your organs and systems to normal healthy function.”
FWIW, I casually know a woman who took some sort of fertility treatment pills and she had 4 kids at once. Several years later after she conceived naturally, the marriage broke up. Sad story.
This will only work if they can make men pregnant.
“Don’t tell me what to do with my body. Tell them to pay for what I do with my body”. -women.
Oh, just great! Tax Americans to pay for someone else's problem. Just exactly what "financial transactions" are being taxed?
Buying and selling stocks, options etc.?
They already are specially overtaxed by so called "capital gains"
taxes. I've for one have had enough of Democrat
Party taxation/confiscation/rip-off schemes.
Arnold wants an abortion, and Bradley wants a baby. Insurance has to pay for that, too, right?
I never had any kids. I have no grand kids.
You want me to pay for fertility treatments & other support for other women?
KMA, Gillidbrand.
LOL!
Let us make no mistake about it:
A vote for ANY Democrat, whether it be in a local, state or federal election, is a vote against America!
America cannot survive a Democrat victory in 2020!
They are long time friends with a couple where the wife is willing to be a surrogate mom to them for nothing. But the legal and medical costs are huge.
So they have started a Go Fund Me page and are putting out their story. It is truly heartbreaking the sorrow and loss they have endured but hopefully over time they'll be able to make this happen.
If anyone wants to donate PM me and I'll send the link.
A Robin Hood or Tobin Tax WILL eventually happen.
I’m convinced of it.
And not every trading desk will move to the Cayman Islands.
Washington will have ways of making that extremely painful to the companies involved. So long as the tax stays below certain levels they’ll grin and bear it.
So we can pay for you to get pregnant, then pay 8.999 Months later to get you aborted after you decide it’s not what you wanted after all???
In my best Genie from Aladdin voice:
“I don’t THINK so”
I suppose the point is to create more babies for her friends at Planned Parenthood to kill.
I and tens of millions of other Americans need low cost health insurance focused on keeping us alive if need be.
Let’s get the basics right.
I’m a low income American.
If it costs $3,000/year per kid, if you can afford a kid, you can set aside $6,000 in two years to pay for fertility treatment.
Don’t distort the economy with costly “free stuff”.
My local shopping mall has a 30% vacancy rate.
Excuse me, Senatrix Gillibrand, but that should be "...starting at conception..."
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