Who needs men? An article at Slate shows that midwives for at-home fertility treatments work just as well. Maybe better:
The night Eva and Christine conceived their daughter was magical. After tracking Christine’s fertility cycle for months…Christine’s temperature and other factors told them it was time to try again. The moment of peak fertility struck in the middle of the night. They called their midwife, who…came immediately to their apartment. Using frozen sperm they’d purchased from a sperm bank…the midwife inserted a speculum into Christine’s vagina, snaked a thin tube directly into her uterus, and readied the vial of sperm.
Proving that markets can develop for almost anything, Slate credits growth of the in-home intrauterine insemination to the fact that same-sex couples are being turned away by fertility clinics who don’t want to turn conception into a medical procedure. This procedure isn’t covered by insurance and entrepreneurial midwives sensed a market and began offering cash-based fertility services.
There truly is a “market” for everything!
Slate credits growth of the in-home intrauterine insemination to the fact that same-sex couples are being turned away by fertility clinics who don’t want to turn conception into a medical procedure.
Slate later stumbles onto the real reason without even realizing it. This procedure isn’t covered by insurance. This is an example providers competing on price and convenience.
How is this an example of providers competing on price and convenience?
This service is not covered by insurance — so patients must pay out of pocket. In order to attract patients willing to purchase the service, the nurse midwives must charge a lower price than competing clinics (who likely won’t even quote a price). These midwives must also be willing to get up in the middle of the night and come to an ovulating client’s apartment to perform the service.
The ingenuity of the American people to make money is astounding. There is no excuse for unemployment when there’s people like this.
Well there is an excuse, most people who are unemployed don’t have the medical expertise to do this type of operation.
True, although, James touched on a good point. We all have skills and talents that can be used for gain, but many of us just settle for what is easy OR don’t take the risks that are required for success. I guarantee you that every unemployed person has the ability to do something useful. That doesn’t mean it is easy or that things will fall into our laps.
“This procedure isn’t covered by insurance and entrepreneurial midwives sensed a market and began offering cash-based fertility services.”
Why don’t they cover it in insurance?
It seems like it hasn’t been covered because of the overwhelming societal bias in many area’s against same-sex parenting.
Overwhelming bias? Where are you getting that from?
I am not basing it on any particular study, but that is the only reason that is probable, because the market typically adapts to these types of demands fairly quickly.
Why would insurance cover this? The article said the women in question (mostly) did not have fertility problems — they merely wanted artificial insemination. Insurance may actually cover these midwives in situations where a couple had a problem with fertility.
Thanks for the anatomy picture; but I’m not sure what all the organs are (labels would help).