Insurance Companies: Instead of Dropping Kids, Drop Unnecessary & Expensive Fertility Treatments!

In order to avoid the Obamacare's ban on denying coverage to kids with pre-existing conditions, several major insurance companies have decided to not cover children whatsoever.  Now, I'm not one to support this hackneyed health care plot shoved down our throats by the Obama administration, but my conscience compels me to object to the insurance industry punishing children for the sins of adults and then say it's the only way to keep from going bankrupt. This is especially true when these same companies continue to fund the insanely expensive and immoral fertility treatments.

While it may seem to be cost prohibitive to pay for a child's asthma treatments, it pays off in the long run because that kid will later get a job and be a productive member of society.  Fertility treatments, on the other hand, are a continual drain, even if they did work within the first five attempts (something that rarely happens.)  And then, if the treatment works, there are the problems that come with high-risk pregnancies (standard for multiple-births.)  If there are more than triplets, then you are certain to have at least one handicapped child on the disability roll.

(I know, God said "be fruitful and multiply."  But He also decides that some shouldn't multiply.  These folks then use science to circumvent God's will.)

Want even more reasons?  How about the fact that the parents who want these treatments are usually unfit parents?  Listen to any interviews of women wanting these treatments; when the doctor tells them of the high risk of having handicapped kids, they blow it off!  So what if I'm damning my kids to a lifetime of pain and agony?  I wanna play mommy!  Take a look at Bobbi McCaughey.  After she gave birth to septuplets in 1997, she went around in her own little dream-world while her husband and other relatives did the actual work of the day-to-day care.  And, to top it off, she refused to get needed attention for one child with a spinal deformity for several years.  (When a reporter noticed the boy was dragging his useless legs behind him instead of crawling normally, Bobbi laughed it off, saying, "Oh, he's just being stubborn.")  The more you look, the more you'll find that the Octomom's brand of neglect is frightfully common.

If the insurance industry truly wants to save money, it shouldn't stop offering policies for children.  It would save many, many tens of thousands of dollars by not covering fertility treatments.  And it would reduce the number of neglected children brought into the world by selfishly unfit mothers.