Misconception: Money Money Money
Prognosis: Misconception
Bloomberg
4.1 • 838 Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
As Kristen stresses about how to pay for fertility treatment, she meets people who had to go extreme lengths to afford the services in a system where insurance coverage is spotty. And she travels to Oklahoma to check out one company that’s trying to make the treatment accessible for all.
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| 0:00.0 | We just lived through a truly wild presidential race, pitting a Democrat who wasn't on the ballot until June, |
| 0:05.4 | and a Republican who was convicted on 34 felony counts just before receiving his party's nomination for president. |
| 0:11.6 | But the wildest thing might have been this guy. |
| 0:14.1 | If you already believe in the Constitution, you're just signing something you already believe, and you can win a million dollars. |
| 0:18.9 | That's awesome. |
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| 0:31.6 | All of our customer service representatives are currently having other... |
| 0:35.0 | This is what it's always like. |
| 0:36.2 | For the next available representatives. Thank you for all in my like. Before fully committing to this whole egg freezing thing, I figured I should probably figure out what it was going to cost me. |
| 0:48.6 | Yeah, it's Kristen Brown. |
| 0:50.6 | So I called up a fertility benefit provider. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah, I am interested in egg freezing, and it's my understanding that I can use. |
| 0:59.0 | I never actually did figure out how much it would cost me. |
| 1:01.8 | But I did learn something very interesting. |
| 1:05.5 | While health insurance in the U.S. generally doesn't cover IVF or egg freezing, |
| 1:10.0 | even when it does, there are some big exceptions. |
| 1:13.1 | Exceptions that can make it way more expensive. |
| 1:16.4 | Oh, really? If I did embryos? |
| 1:18.8 | Oh, wow. So would it actually potentially be cheaper? |
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