NDAA Draft Drops Military IVF Coverage After Johnson's Intervention

Overview

• The draft released Sunday omits a provision that would have expanded TRICARE to cover IVF for service members.
• Reporting indicates Speaker Mike Johnson worked behind the scenes to remove the IVF language from the bill.
• Both the House and the Senate had previously approved the IVF expansion earlier this year as an NDAA amendment.
• IVF advocates, including RESOLVE and the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, condemned the exclusion as denying parity to military families and pointed to higher infertility rates in the ranks.
• Johnson praised the package for reversing what he called 'Biden-era wokeism,' and Congress could vote on the measure as soon as this week.