By Emma Patch
From Kiplinger’s Personal Finance
Breana Williams, 28, of Fresno, California, has comprehensive health care coverage, but when she began looking into fertility treatments to start a family, she was floored by the out-of-pocket cost.
So while some friends in her shoes started seeking a job at a U.S. company offering to offset or cover the cost of fertility care for their employees, and others took out second mortgages on their homes to pay the medical bills, Williams had another thought: Mexico.
Thus began Williams’ journey down and up the California coast to Tijuana, where she received three rounds of in vitro fertilization treatment for a fraction of the price quoted to her at home. The initial round cost $3,500 and $1,000 for medication, and each round after that was just $1,500 before the cost of medication. In the states, she was quoted roughly $20,000 for just one round….