In the wake of the recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling related to in vitro fertilization clinics/practices, policymakers are likely to respond by overreacting and making hasty policy decisions.
Suggesting a new federal benefit mandate is one of those ill-advised ideas.
A federal benefit mandate for IVF would not only raise the cost of health care coverage, but it would further entrench efforts by the Left to consolidate federal control over health care that intensified under Obamacare.
All health insurance benefit mandates—whether enacted at the state or federal level—increase the cost of health insurance, thus harming consumers. While the same arguments apply to state benefit mandates, enacting a federal benefit mandate would be worse because of its broader scope—applying not only to health insurance regulated by any state, but also to employer self-insured…
