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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (76183)	7/24/2008 10:00:12 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 543225

I heard a caller on the radio yesterday - a woman who was doing a job at a company whose ethics were different from her own in some way I don't remember (I think maybe they made birth control pills or something). But she didn't want to leave because her insurance through this company covered her infertility treatments. Does this strike you as sort of strange on a couple of levels? The first that she objects to preventing conception on religious grounds, but obviously isn't willing to accept her own condition? (But maybe there is more to her condition than she said, so I won't belabor that one. It just intrigued me) But should insurance cover something that isn't an actual health need? I have always thought covering viagra but not birth control pills was ridiculous. Fertility treatments are extremely expensive. Does universal health care cover this sort of thing? What treatments would be considered optional? Will preventive colonoscopies and mammograms be allowed? Who decides the priorities of coverage. If we allow someone like that woman to decide, we will pay thousands of dollars for her to get pregnant, while denying others the right to choose not to! Given that we live in a real world, we have to make choices that are effected by incentives and resources. Too true. And I really want more answers before I throw out the baby with the bathwater, as dirty as our bathwater has become. (heard a funny line the other night-- when you throw the baby out with the bathwater, all you get is a wet, injured baby)