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Originally posted by valkyrie
I'd get a tubal tomorrow if I had health insurance that covered it or the money. Unfortunately, I have neither health insurance nor money right now, so it's not going to happen.
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This is so true. I had a friend who recently was going to get a tubal ligation. She's in her mid-30s and has had a child, so she finally, after 6 months of meeting with the doctor, got approved to do it (you have to be really persistent if you want to do this!). Her health insurance was even going to cover it. Then, she found out, even after health insurance "covering it" she had a co-pay of $1500!!!! Unfortunately, that was so unexpected and beyond her means that after all that, she wasn't able to get the surgery.
I also have met with doctors, as I indicated before, but they basically laughed in my face. They were somewhat sympathetic to my plight, actually, but they basically said, "It ain't gonna happen."
Re: vasectomies being reversible. What you say makes sense. However, I would point out that, as I have been doing some reading lately, I have learned that the success rate for reversal of vasectomies decreases sharply as time goes by. I believe I read that if it's not done within three years, the success rate drops off (or maybe it was 7?). This is why they often resist doing vasectomies for males still in their 20s. Even if you're in your late 20s, 7 years later, you are still young enough to have lots of babies, and change your mind! And if you change your mind then, it might be too late. I'm not sure about the liability an individual physician incurs, and it doesn't seem fair anyway, but ethically, if I was a physician, even knowing myself, I still wouldn't do it, knwoing that some people WILL change their minds, and I would have taken away their opportunity to choose.
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