Opinion: Are infertility treatments ‘essential’? How to ethically determine what kind of care must go on amid Covid-19
As the Covid-19 epidemic began to put an unprecedented strain on the U.S. health care system, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services along with many state agencies issued directives that non-essential care be discontinued. The goal was to redeploy resources that were being used for them to fight the spreading coronavirus.
While these efforts were done hastily, and not necessarily according to any generalizable framework, they largely succeeded in halting care that did not absolutely need to occur in a timely fashion.
