Infertility has become so critical that Republicans and Democrats are both now advocating for IVF. Roughly 1 in 7 couples struggle to conceive, and President Trump’s IVF executive order is supposed to ease that burden by “aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs.” Yet funneling money or insurance coverage into IVF won’t magically solve anything. As counterintuitive as it sounds, simply handing IVF to general insurers could hurt the very people we’re trying to help. It takes more than money to make babies.

Much of today’s debate centers on lowering costs through broader coverage, but that misses the core problem: We have too few embryologists, too few labs, and outdated processes. The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) has cited extreme staffing shortages,

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