I am pro-life and pro-family, and out extended family has a wonderful, treasured child of IVF.
But damn, despite us needing to win these elections, and I understand and acknowledge that — it’s so democrat-esque for conservatives to go out of the way for that kind of crap, like Federally mandated IVF.
What it takes to win our current war is not appropriate if we ever get back to political peace, but in the same way that Obamacare persisted, so many things never go away once they start.
Mandating all insurance pay for IVF, especially at a FEDERAL level, is wrong.
IVF will not solve the under-population problem if anyone thinks that — but that is not the issue.
There is no enumeration in our Constitution for the Feds to make “healthcare” and medical mandates. That is left to the states! And I advocate that it is an unalienable right all of us have not to have government at ANY level telling us how we FUND our own health issues. We also have the unalienable right to freely associate with others to pay for our health, and if we want, that of those we associate with.
Under a fed mandate, it will become FEDERALLY ILLEGAL for anyone to have cheaper medical insurance that does not pay for things such as “IVF” (so called “test tube babies”).
Do you want to ONLY be able to buy medical insurance that ALSO pays for medical insurance that also pays for super expensive drugs for homosexual guys so they can have all the unprotected recreational sex they want without as much HIV risk? Well you are already doing that right now with your private and public dollars. If you have health insurance in these USA, it’s illegal not to. That’s the situation now with “PREP” anti-HIV meds.
If you are at no risk on HIV requiring “prophylaxis”, why should you, by FEDERAL FIAT, have to buy “PREP” for other people, and so the drug companies can charge even more for it?
If you believe in how Rowe v Wade was overturned (ie, it is now left to the states and not the Feds, the best we could get for now), then why is it suddenly OK to force EVERYONE to pay for IVF for a condition (not really even an illness in most cases) relatively few couples need?
What if you are a single male, age 25, and want the cheapest insurance? NOPE, you MUST pay for other people to get PREP and IVF, have babies, get “front hole smears” (formerly the evil term “cervical Pap smears” which implied that only women may have a cervix) etc. Illegal not to. The Feds say so.
If you are an athletic 7 foot tall man, you can use your advantages (your athleticism and your height) to be a basketball billionaire...
...but if you are a simple 5’8” 26 year old unmarried male, where good health is literally your ONLY advantage in life, it is FEDERALLY ILLEGAL for you to use your one and only advantage in life to your own benefit by buying cheaper insurance! How dare you!
And apparently it’s fine for auto insurance companies to jack up your prices for being male, jack up your prices for past history, spy on our modern cars by hook and by crook and charge more if they see you drive zippy, etc, etc, all JUST FINE. But get in an accident and all the safe drivers have to pay for your bills.
And for medical insurance, one size by law fits all, even for the irresponsible. Socialized medicine that you think is private, communofascism.
Federal politicians who just shoot from the hip and say “sounds good” (basically all of them) are half the reason for the rapid march toward communofascism in these USA.
“From each and everyone according to ‘their’ good health, to everyone else according to their worse health.” Wow.
Ignoring the 9th and 10th Amendments is one of the biggest issues we face in fighting today’s political battles. Sounds good? Not.
See https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4261601/posts?page=125#125
It took so long of me to write that, I missed a lot of the other responses above, including Nick and Jay, but those were the closest to the bottom. This was not written after reading any of your comments. Maybe this relates, maybe not.
I doubt I will reply back tonight to anyone. Mostly cathartic.
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It will make it worse. It's not against the problem, it's doubling down.