Trump Participates in a Maternal Healthcare Event, May 11, 2026
May 11, 2026 · The White House · 1:16:05
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What happened
President Donald Trump headlined a maternal healthcare event at the White House on May 11, 2026. The headline announcement, as he stated it: “Most health care plans do not cover these benefits, but today I’m pleased to announce that the Department of Labor is issuing a new rule to formally create a fertility benefit option for employers that can be offered to all employees outside of their normal health insurance plans.” The benefit, he explained, would work “much like vision or dental insurance” — a supplemental option covering care at every step of the fertility journey, intended in part to reduce the number of couples who ultimately need IVF by identifying problems early.
The President credited Senator Katie Britt with first bringing fertility policy to him and recounted the administration’s IVF access steps after the Alabama court ruling. On costs, he pointed to the most favored nation agreements negotiated with pharmaceutical companies and nations: “One drug commonly used in IVF has gone from, as an example, $966 to $168,” he said. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz — “Oz and Bobby,” as the President referred to them from the podium — took part in the event.
Why it matters
The Labor Department rule announced here is the administration’s structural move on fertility coverage — a new employer benefit category outside standard health insurance — and it lands in the same policy thread as the MFN drug-pricing agreements: the price of fertility care attacked from the benefit-design side and the drug-price side at once. It is recorded on the Health & MAHA hub.
Scoreboard watch
This is a candidate item for the weekly scoreboard: the Department of Labor fertility-benefit rule as announced, and the IVF drug figure as stated by the President ($966 to $168 under the MFN agreements), checkable against the published rule and the agreements’ drug lists.
Sources: The White House, “President Trump Participates in a Maternal Healthcare Event,” The White House, May 11, 2026 (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by President Trump at the event.
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