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The cost of surrogacy and insurance denials push gay couples to crowdfund children

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Tyler Le/Insider Insider spoke to several same-sex couples using GoFundMe to afford surrogacy. Heteronormative definitions of infertility mean that gay couples are often excluded from undercover IVF. LGBTQ advocates are now pushing for a more inclusive definition to add to social infertility. Seven months ago, Noah and Tyler Tyner-Dernulc started a GoFundMe. So far, she’s … Read more

In Washington, a fight over the Kafkaesque absurdity of insurance delays, denials

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Comment on this storyComment In the two months it took the insurance company to approve drugs for Washington psychiatrist Jacob Swartz’s patient, he saw how students, once regulated by ADHD and impulse control, unraveled: When and B they turned downvotes, they were suspended, their self esteem plummeted. While Swartz could see the price of delay, … Read more