Shadowdark Shadowdark General Thread [+]

[Retros_x]

IVF is crazy expensive. I know a couple who are wealthy by ordinary people's standards who eventually had to give up on it as it was burning through cash, and exhausting the would-be mother with all the treatments, with nothing to show for it.

I just looked it up, around 4-5k € per cycle. I thought, yeah, that is money, but doesn't seem like it would burn through cash even for rich couples. Then I saw that sometimes our statutory health insurance covers up to 50% of the costs for 3 cycles, depending on several conditions and what state you live in. Than I remembered, uh, shucks they are of course talking about the USA. Than I looked that up, well its around 15-25k $ per cycle, medication and other costs excluded. Than I thanked the universe for living in a country with actual health care.