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Originally Posted by Azure
Well, as cold as it sounds a 50% success rate is going to turn a lot of people off.
Cause half the taxpayer money would essentially be 'wasted.'
I still think there are better methods. Competing private clinics would help lower the costs.
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I can understand how the success rate would turn some people off - heck, it sometimes makes the infertile crowd sit back and think too.
Do you mean having only private clinics or a private and public fertility clinics? Because private clinics may not be able to do it cheaper. A couple I know from Washington State actually came up to Canada to do their second IVF round because the private clinic there was charging about $19 000 for a IVF cycle, while the Richmond BC clinic only was about $10 000. The few times I've ever seen "IVF deals" is for clinics in Mexico, India, Thailand and one middle eastern country that I can't recall right now.
I think even if there wasn't full funding for IVF (which would strain our poor Calgary clinic even more than it is now, I bet), I'd love to see even half of it covered - even if it's just the non-medicated portion of the fees.