Maybe, just maybe it shouldn’t cost close to 10k to even TRY to have a kid through IVF? More like 15k out of pocket costs till the Medicare rebate anyway.
1 in 6 aussie couples will struggle with infertility whilst 1 in 20 kids is born of IVF. https://monashivf.com/one-in-six/
1 in 6 couples. 1 in 20 babies. You can see a fair gap here. Unless your comfortably “middle class”, you screwed. yes there are some public clinics with no gap, but the wait times are staggering. If we’re worried about falling birth rates FULLY funding IVF and fertility treatments through Medicare is a no brainer.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dr Davies said the country was already testing using artificial intelligence (AI) bots and services in the support workspace, in preparation for an increasingly elderly population.
“There are already a lot of tech companies developing in that space … AI robots and services to check up on people’s health and wellbeing, remind you to take your pills, have a chat to it to keep your mental faculties going,” she said.
Dr Davies said for migration levels to stay the same in Australia — about 220,000 people per annum — the country was going to have to learn to compete on an international stage to attract migrants.
The current generation of Australians in their 20s were born under Mr Costello’s baby bonus policy, where their parents were given tax incentives to have children.
Dr Davies said this combination of factors, along with the current cost of living and housing crisis, meant she could not see Australia’s fertility rate change any time soon unless the government acts now.
“Australia needs to continue to improve its work and family policies such as the provision of affordable childcare, but more for the well-being of mothers than to increase the fertility rate,” he said.
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