Notwithstanding what I said above, someone with a strong personal belief in the rightness of a policy should not be trusted to do objective cost/benefit analysis.
Gruber obviously believes strongly in government-paid healthcare, and probably is strongly prochoice.
It is therefore wise to take analysis of the effects of these policies from him with a very large container of salt grains.
Yes, and I can already see that he ignores the one obvious economic negative due to abortion: we aren’t producing enough children to keep paying for our unfunded liabilities.
It really doesn’t matter if your family is slightly better off for having fewer children, when the entire country is going bankrupt because of it.