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Women Veterans and Other Health Care Improvements Act

On June 19, U.S. Senator Patty Murry introduced the Women Veterans and Other Health Care Improvement Act S3313. A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to women veterans, to improve health care furnished by the Department, and for other purposes. This bill will include fertility counseling and medical treatments to veterans wounded in the line of duty. Click here to read the full text of this bill.

Infertilty is a devastating diagnosis to receive and it is further complicated by lack of insurance coverage for most Americans. TRICARE and other medical benefits for active duty military and veterans, does not include coverage for infertility treatments including assisted reproductive technologies, such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). This places an added hardship on our servicemen and women and veterans with infertility that is unnecessary.

RESOLVE supports this bill that will provide fertility counseling and medical treatment to veterans wounded in the line of duty. These veterans have many necessary medical services available to them upon returning home, yet if their military services has rendered them infertile, they have no access to medical treatment to have a child. By providing this coverage, veterans have a chance at the family they always dreamed of. For many wounded veterans, assisted reproductive technologies such as IVF may be their only hope of ever having a biological child with their spouse.

Update: January 4, 2013

This bill died in the 112th Congress and must be re-introduced in the 113th Congress. Check back for updates.

Bill Status

U.S. Senate:

The Senate Veteran’s Affairs Committee heard testimony on this bill on June 27, 2012 and the Committee requested written testimony from RESOLVE, which is linked below. A patient and a Urologist testified in person at the hearing and provided excellent information to the Committee. On September 12, the Committee voted on the bill and passed it out of Committee. It now goes to the full Senate for a vote. On December 13, Senate voted to pass this bill.

As of September 21, this bill has four co-sponsors including:

Mark Begich (D-AK)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (I-VT)
Jon Tester (D-MT)

U. S. House of Representatives:

On September 21, Representative Rick Larsen introduced bill HR 6527 to amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the assistance provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs to women veterans, to improve health care furnished by the Department, and for other purposes. On

As of December 4, this bill has twenty co-sponsors including: