Trump moves to push employers on IVF coverage and lower fertility drug costs

President says plans will lead to ‘many more beautiful American children’ but unclear if companies will sign up

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it is urging US employers to create new fertility benefit options to cover in vitro fertilization and other infertility treatments.

In an announcement from the Oval Office, Donald Trump also said his administration had cut a deal with the drug manufacturer EMD Serono to lower the cost of one of its fertility drugs and list the drug on the government website TrumpRx.