Why Are We Here? Or, The Family Building Act

The day after I asked Garrett what on earth we thought we were doing moving across the country with a tiny boy who would miss all the special family events and trips to Grandma's house, incurring debt through our move that was not paid for by the new job, just to come to the East Coast to drown in trees and humidity and loneliness, we made a discovery.

We were perusing our new health insurance benefits when we found this:

Other Covered Services:

• Infertility treatment - Diagnosis & treatment of 

underlying medical condition covered with no lifetime 

maximum. Other infertility treatment limited to $20,000 

lifetime maximum. Artificial insemination and ovulation 

induction limited to 6 attempts per lifetime. Advanced 

Reproductive Technology limited to 3 attempts for 

lifetime. 

As I did more research I learned that New Jersey had recently passed The Family Building Act, which requires plans who insure more than 50 people to offer plans that provide coverage for fertility treatment. 

Suddenly, I knew why we were here.