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Years after she had her first child, Joaquin (left), Mary Delgado found out that she had endometriosis and that IVF was her only option to get pregnant again. The news from her doctor “broke me inside,” Delgado says, “because I knew it was so expensive.” Delgado, who is on Medicaid, traveled more than 300 miles round trip for lower-cost IVF, and she and her partner, Joaquin Rodriguez, used savings they’d set aside for a home. Their daughter, Emiliana, is now almost a year old. (Joaquin Rodriguez/KFF Health News/TNS)People with lower incomes, often minorities, are more likely to be covered by Medicaid or skimpier commercial plans with no such coverage.
Originally published at Tribune News Service