Posted on 01/20/2015 6:39:17 PM PST by Morgana
The Congressional Budget Office says legislation the House will pass this week to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy would lead to an increase in the budget deficit of at least $235 million over the next decade, and perhaps as much as half a billion dollars.
The CBO released a report Tuesday for the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, H.R. 36, which the House will consider on Thursday. That bill aims to ban abortions after 20 weeks, and is based on evidence that a fetus can feel pain once it reaches that age. CBO’s report assumes that if the legislation were to become law, about three-quarters of the abortions that might normally happen after 20 weeks would happen earlier, in order to comply with the law.
But it also assumes that the remaining quarter of people who don’t get an earlier abortion would give birth. CBO said that means higher Medicaid costs related to childbirth over a ten-year period.
“Depending on the number of additional births under H.R. 36, such Medicaid costs could range from about $100 million over the next 10 years to nearly $500 million over that period,” CBO said.
CBO settled on an estimate of $235 million.
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Yep, I guess the country being flooded with illegals would decrease the budget deficit.
This is ridiculous.
I just cashed my $2500.00 Obamacare Annual Family Savings Check......how about yooze guys ?
Bought more ammo with mine.
At an eeeeeevvvvvviiiillll gun show.
” Bought more ammo with mine.”
Good move......now about that Obamataxcutforthemiddleclass
: )
Tax cut = more ammo.
It’s paradise!
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No;
Protectmyassfromrabidliberalcommiebuttheads.com
This would be a great revenue producing website!
:^) have at it, my brother!!!!!!!!
Not so. The way for the budget deficit to stop rising is to cut the budget.
Jonathan Gruber ping.
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