health care policy Archives — Thrifty Mommas Tips https://www.thriftymommastips.com/tag/health-care-policy/ Travel, Health & Family Mon, 11 Dec 2017 17:08:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.thriftymommastips.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/cropped-thrifty_logo_header-32x32.png health care policy Archives — Thrifty Mommas Tips https://www.thriftymommastips.com/tag/health-care-policy/ 32 32 77340857 How to Be a Fertility Advocate #IVF4BC #WeAre1in6 https://www.thriftymommastips.com/fertility-advocate-ivf4bc-weare1in6/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:22:27 +0000 https://www.thriftymommastips.com/?p=19208 Ready to use your voice? Ready to be a fertility advocate? Are you one of the 1 in 6 in British Columbia struggling to conceive? Do you want to help? Then I have good news for you. The IVF4BC infertility patient advocacy group has some thoughts on how to become a fertility advocate. There’s an art to advocating effectively. Using your voice to build a conversation with politicians and policy makers is the start of the process. But there’s a dramatic difference between jumping on a soapbox to preach or shout at someone, and sharing a story passionately and supporting that story with facts. In British Columbia right now, a province in which infertility patients are underserved, there’s a need for better fertility health care. There’s a need for change. That change begins when you choose to become a fertility advocate. If you are one of the 1 in 6 struggling with infertility in British Columbia and you have a story to share, please read this How to Be a Fertility Advocate infographic. Pin it for later, or print it out. [tweetthis]Eight simple ways to help support #IVF4BC here – > How to Become a Fertility Advocate #weare1in6 #bcpoli [/tweetthis] The PDF version of How to be a Fertility Advocate is here, if you want to save it for later and print it out or use it yourself. There are several easy steps and ideas of simple actions you can take to make your voice heard in BC right now as a fertility advocate. How to be a Fertility Advocate Advocacy_Checklist_IVF4BC Contact ivf4bc@gmail.com if you are interested in doing more, sharing your story or volunteering to help. Follow @IVF4BC on Twitter and Facebook too. Visit their new web site first and read up on what the patient group is doing. You can share your story there too. I am a community manager for this group. My opinion is all my own and it is also truthful.  

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]]> 19208 What To Expect from the 2015 IVF Funding Program: An Interview with Dr. Marjorie Dixon #ohip4ivf #onpoli https://www.thriftymommastips.com/expect-2015-ivf-funding-program-ohip4ivf-onpoli/ https://www.thriftymommastips.com/expect-2015-ivf-funding-program-ohip4ivf-onpoli/#comments Thu, 13 Nov 2014 17:06:51 +0000 https://www.thriftymommastips.com/?p=4248 This year infertility patients in Ontario welcomed the announcement that in vitro fertilization would be funded here as soon as 2015. Public funding for IVF would be a reality. Or would it? After that announcement last April, a spring election was called. That left many feeling worried that proposed funding would never arrive. For infertility patents in Ontario it was a roller coaster of emotions. But remarkably, the spring election resulted in a Liberal majority and the government did in fact reiterate its promise to support an IVF funding program in 2015. Members of Conceivable Dreams were overjoyed and hopeful with the announcement. But still, there has been little news from the government, and as the year winds down and many infertility patients in Ontario are curious. Many have important life decisions to make and frankly, when infertility is at issue timing is always crucial. Dr. Marjorie Dixon joined a Conceivable Dreams and Linked Moms twitter party last night to talk directly to patients and handle some of the questions patients have about what they can expect from an IVF funding program in 2015. Some patients were wondering if any progress has been made. No news has left a lot of anxious patients. Dr. Dixon answered some questions about the coming IVF funding program. A key point in the conversation with Dr. Dixon was just that: don’t delay prescribed treatment. Based on the conversation with her last night this is what we know about the 2015 IVF funding program. [View the story “INTERVIEW WITH Dr. Marjorie Dixon” on Storify]

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