LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – Kendall Nascimento and her husband could not wait to start having kids.
“We just thought pregnancy would come easy. I turn 40 this year and I feel young, I feel healthy, I always lived a healthy lifestyle,” Nascimento said.
However, the last eight months have proven to be anything but easy for the couple.
“I never had any indication that I would be struggling with this disease,” Nascimento said.
Nascimento is struggling with infertility and has gone through two cycles of IVF, which is all being paid for on their own.
“Unfortunately neither of our insurance policies covered a single anything from a blood test, to any type of oral medication; nothing was covered,” she said.
In the last eight months, the couple has spent $60,000 on treatment.
This is treatment that would be covered if Gov. Joe Lombardo signs the Nevada Building Families Act.
“It is nearly impossible for so many families financially my father had to sell his home to give us the proceeds my in-laws had to dip into their life savings most families don’t have those kind of resources,” Amanda Klein, founder of Nevada Fertility Advocates, said.
Klein hopes that with this bill, every Nevadan gets a chance to start a family of their own without worrying about costs.
The bill has passed the legislature and now sits on Gov. Lombardo’s desk to be signed into law or vetoed.
“We are hoping he sees this is such a big win for health care in Nevada, it’s a big win for him, it’s a big win for patients and it’s a big win for providers,” Klein said.
It is also a win, Nascimento hopes, that will make her fertility journey a little easier.
“I am just kind of taking it day by day, that is kind of how you have to do it,” Nascimento said.
If the bill passes, it would also ensure pregnant women will get to enroll in insurance all year long.
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