Rush Limbaugh has finally jumped the shark - advertisers abandoning him

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interesting--and a necessary read for those who are concerned about taxpayer dollars and welfare, etc. of course the current debates don't have to do with tax dollars, but with employer provided coverages.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012...ey?ft=1&f=1001

Love them or hate them, contraceptives do save taxpayers money, Brookings concludes.

The study, from the Brookings Center on Children and Families, looked at three different ways to prevent unintended pregnancies, which account for about half of all pregnancies in the U.S.

...by far the biggest return on investment would come from expanding access to family planning through Medicaid, something made possibly through the 2010 Affordable Care Act. A $235 million investment there would lower taxpayer costs of $1.32 billion by preventing unintended pregnancies.


you lower pregnancy rates, you lower maternity demands. you lower pre-natal demands. you lower additions to welfare and medicaid. you don't have expenses to cover a persons' health throughout their lifetime if they're never born.
just think, if you prevented unintended pregnancies, you just cut childbirth rates in half.