If you live in Massachusetts, you have it pretty lucky when it comes to infertility coverage (unless of course your employer is self-insured). Mass. leads the nation as the gold standard for infertility coverage, but it has built up over twenty years of tarnish on its outdated definition of infertility. As the mandate currently stands, women who experience recurrent miscarriage can be caught in a perpetual cycle of coverage denial because of a technical loophole. MA S. 485 seeks to update this definition and bring it inline with the current guidelines and definitions as issued by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. The bill is currently sitting in the Senate Ways and Means Committee and desperately needs your help to be passed favorably out of committee.
The best thing to help give this bill a boost is an aggressive email and phone campaign to the committee members. Legislators actually DO care about personal stories, so speaking up by sending them either an email or calling them is one of the most effective and simplest advocacy strategies you can do.
If you live in Mass., please take five minutes to read my latest Examiner article on 3 things you can do to help in just ten minutes.
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Hope you have a great ICLW and that the changes you are campaigning for happen soon in your state. x