I'm in Ontario, and the province just started publicly funding IVF within the last year or so. My sister legit needed fertility treatment (she's thin and healthy, but has an issue with her pituitary gland so she couldn't get pregnant on her own) and she was telling me that with the government-funded IVF, they will only pay for one round and will only implant one embryo. So most of the time it fails, and then the couple will have to pay for IVF privately after that. She told me this was at a cost of $12,000 to the provincial healthcare system. Call me cruel, but I don't think IVF should be covered. Nobody needs to have a baby. Yes, infertility is horrible and tragic, no one is arguing that, but IVF is not a life-saving procedure. It's a want, not a need. It should be like how they class plastic surgery procedures in the province - on a case-by-case basis. It should be paid for by the province only if certain criteria are met. And fats should be denied IVF until they get down to a normal weight, because like you said, they often don't need IVF once they aren't obese anymore.