A single cycle of IVF costs several thousand pounds, and hours of medical professionals labour. It normally takes 2-3 cycles to get pregnant.
Allowing couples capable of conceiving naturally to apply for publicly funded IVF can only deny it to people incapable of doing so. Even under socialism, these things still cost limited resources.
… Well… there’s probably not a shortage of semen/egg storage facilities… probably not a shortage of hormones… definitely not a shortage of syringes and needles…
So, I’m thinking there’s no reason for this to be treated as a “scarce” resource that needs rationing.
The scarce resource is the number of hours in a day for the medical staff to do this stuff. Add more medical staff specializing in IVF and it’s less of a problem.
So a very minor thing of … scheduling. That’s pretty much it.
There is no huge demand for IVF that is going to crash the system. People aren’t waiting in line outside IVF clinics for their turn as it is, by all the accounts I’ve come across, its a pretty rough thing to go through.
A single cycle of IVF costs several thousand pounds, and hours of medical professionals labour. It normally takes 2-3 cycles to get pregnant.
Allowing couples capable of conceiving naturally to apply for publicly funded IVF can only deny it to people incapable of doing so. Even under socialism, these things still cost limited resources.
… Well… there’s probably not a shortage of semen/egg storage facilities… probably not a shortage of hormones… definitely not a shortage of syringes and needles…
So, I’m thinking there’s no reason for this to be treated as a “scarce” resource that needs rationing.
The scarce resource is the number of hours in a day for the medical staff to do this stuff. Add more medical staff specializing in IVF and it’s less of a problem.
So a very minor thing of … scheduling. That’s pretty much it.
There is no huge demand for IVF that is going to crash the system. People aren’t waiting in line outside IVF clinics for their turn as it is, by all the accounts I’ve come across, its a pretty rough thing to go through.