Another mandate that will cost everyone
As reported in The Courant, “… lawmakers are considering legislation that would expand health insurance coverage for infertility treatments to same-sex couples and individuals who wish to have a child on their own.” [March 8, Page 1, “Officials consider coverage changes. Lawmakers discuss legislation to expand infertility coverage”].
According to the World Health Organization, “Infertility is a disease of the male or female reproductive system defined by the failure to achieve a pregnancy after 12 months or more of regular unprotected sexual intercourse.”
This proposed legislation makes a mockery of the definition of infertility in order to accommodate people who are actually fertile, but, as a consequence of their lifestyle as opposed to disease, are not able to conceive children.
This proposed new entitlement would place the burden of another costly mandate on an already overburdened health care system that would be passed along to consumers and taxpayers.
If the supposed beneficiaries of this proposal really want to have children, they can readily accomplish that by adopting one of the legions of adoptable children desperately waiting for parents and a good home.
Roger Kern, Essex
Geno should bow out after next season
Next year will mark Geno’s 40th as a coach. He will be 70 years old and his current contract expires after the 2024-2025 season. Though the UConn world will miss him greatly, it’s the right time to say farewell. It is reasonable to suspect that for some time, using his age, rival coaches have been warning high school recruits that he won’t be around for their full college careers.
I’ve long worried that Geno’s departure would mark the end to the UConn dynasty. Until recently. That’s when the idea struck me that there is someone who could continue the Huskies’ string of success — and possibly even improve on it (last championship 2016).
It is former assistant Shea Ralph. She’s a woman coaching and recruiting women; she’s a former UConn star; and, most importantly, she’s turned around a moribund Vanderbilt team in just three years (16-19 in year one; 22-9 in year three).
I think UConn and Geno should move on her before a Power 5 school does. The possibility of this future for UConn brings some solace to the current season when UConn, once again, will likely go out in the Sweet 16.
Tom Eglinton, Asheville, N.C.