Subsidies for infertility treatment Prime Minister Suga "I want to abolish income restrictions"

Yoshihide Suga Prime Minister 23 days, Tokyo to lecture in, infertility treatment said, "wants to abolish the income limit" for subsidies to. The government plans to include the necessary expenses in the third supplementary budget for 2020, which will be decided by the Cabinet in December . We are making adjustments with the aim of starting use from January to March next year within the fiscal year.

Regarding the subsidy system for advanced infertility treatment such as in vitro fertilization and intracytoplasmic sperm injection , the government has decided to abolish the income restriction that "the total income of the couple is less than 7.3 million yen". In the future, we will consider expansion measures such as adding the amount of subsidy and increasing the number of treatments that can receive the subsidy. The necessary expenses will be included in the third supplementary budget for 2020, which will be decided by the Cabinet in December, with the aim of starting use from January to March next year.

Currently, infertility treatment is not covered by public medical insurance except for some tests such as the cause of infertility, and the burden on the person receiving the treatment tends to be high. For this reason, the government has set 300,000 yen for in vitro fertilization and microinsemination , which are not covered by insurance, for couples whose wife's age at the start of treatment is under 43 years old and who meets the income limit of less than 7.3 million yen in total. From the second time onward, a subsidy of 150,000 yen has been issued. There is also a limit of 6 times in total if the wife is under 40 years old, and 3 times in total if the wife is 40 years old or older and under 43 years old. There were about 138,000 uses in FY2018, and the total budget for FY2008 is about 30 billion yen.

Prime Minister belief expressed speech in such as infertility treatment has been raised the insurance application to, application is seen from as early as in 2010, also described as "slightly, we need time," in a speech on this day. Until the realization, he said, "I want to be able to provide support measures similar to insurance coverage as soon as next year. I also want to remove income restrictions."

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