Relaxing Doesn't Make Babies

The Deal with our Insurance

October 13, 2006 — 5:23 pm

Here’s what ConnectiCare sent in response. I was right – it is Den’s employer. Which, unfortunately, is the effin federal government.

The Federal Government (the group through which you are insured) can choose which mandates they want to apply to their coverage. In 2006, they did not elect to follow the state’s Infertility Mandate, therefore coverage exists only as stated in your plan documents.

I’m so pissed off! I’m going to be writing to the personnel department to complain about this. They chose not to cover it. I’m going to write a letter all about how important family is in the military (they promote family activites all the time, they state it’s so very important) and how this affects people, etc. BUT I’m willing to bet the decision was made really high-up, not someone at the base or even in this state. So I seriously doubt my bitching is going to get any notice at all.

But Den says open season is coming up, where they are free to change insurance companies. So we’ll check out what’s available to us. But if they chose not to follow the mandate for one insurance company, I’m willing to bet they chose not to follow it for any of them. At least with our current insurance we do get coverage for meds cycles and IUI, just not IVF.

But I’m still fuckin pissed off. Here I thought we were so damn lucky to be living in Massachusetts.

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