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125. I heard a commercial for Medicare supplement insurance

The ad said the insurance will pay for SOME things Medicare will NOT pay for. I made the joke that the phase "Some things" could be it pays for Birth Control pills, pregnancy testing and cost of giving birth. Medicare does NOT pay for those items for the simple reason women over 65 rarely need birth control pills (there are other reasons to use Birth Control Pills other then Birth Control but for this joke we can ignore those uses), pregnancy testing or giving birth.

Oldest post WWII American to give birth, at age 60 (with use of fertility treatment):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2196374/Americas-oldest-mother-twins-65-lied-age-conceive-year-old-sons.html

Eldest woman was 70, but again with fertility treatment:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1286412/Worlds-oldest-mother-Rajo-Devi-Lohan-reveals-dying.html

Now, women as old as 73 have given birth to naturally conceived children, most women stop being able to do so by age 50:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy_over_age_50

The records of all of the women above 59 years of age who gave birth and conceived naturally are considered questionable (and given the nature of record keeping prior to 1900 is understandable, i.e. records were kept but no one really care if there were accurate). The 59 year old woman was on hormone replacement therapy that may have made her able to conceive (i.e. not a true natural conception). The eldest women to give birth WITHOUT hormone replacement therapy was age 57 in the Ukraine. A Russian 56 year old woman gave birth in 2008, but they is some question whether this was truly a natural Concepcion. Thus the eldest CONFIRMED mother of a naturally conceived child was at age 55 1/2 from German.