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Healthcare System Basics: How does your insurance work?

In case you had any doubts, our insurance system is what it is through a series of piecemeal programs and pieces of legislation that were not planned in advance, and so lead to the intricate and often inscrutable maze that we now have to navigate as consumers and providers. The basic premise of insurance of any kind is that...

To Freeze or Not to Freeze

As a woman who had her first child at 36 and her second at 40, I have found this assertion suspicious to say the least. In 2000, pregnant with my first son, I was routinely referred to as an “elderly primp” (primp is short for primiparous, or first pregnancy). I did require IVF for my first child, but not...