Trump takes steps to reduce cost of fertility medicines

President Trump announced a plan to make in vitro fertilization more accessible to American women with an employer benefit option to offer coverage of the treatments directly to their workers.
He also announced a pricing deal with EMD Serono, a maker of a fertility drug, to drastically reduce its price. The announcement builds on the executive order he signed at the beginning of his second term that promised to lower the treatment’s cost and make it more accessible.

“As a result of these actions, the per-cycle cost of drugs used in IVF will fall by an estimated 73% for American consumers, and the numbers are actually going to be very substan …