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Article: State policy is due soon on fertility drug funds
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1994
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The Weld administration is expected to announce a formal policy
shortly on whether the state should continue to provide fertility
drugs to recipients of Medicaid, the state-federal health insurance
program for poor people.
The Division of Medical Assistance, which administers Medicaid,
began reviewing the issue earlier this week after two Republican
legislators contended that the administration was using taxpayers'
money to enable "welfare mothers" to have more children.
The federal government does not require states to pay for
fertility drug treatments for Medicaid recipients and Massachusetts
has never taken a position on the issue. As a result, according to
state officials, the few ...