Spending just $235 million to expand access to Medicaid family planning services would save $1.32 billion, Brookings projects. That's an amazing rate of return: 560%. And that's just the spending on a government health care subsidy. Paying your private health care premium is an even more efficient way to invest in female contraception because there's no new government bureaucracy to set up; the framework is already there. It's a private-sector solution that grows the economy and makes us all wealthier. It reduces the abortion rate and cuts down on the number of unmarried mothers. If that's not a conservative-friendly idea, what is?
---SPSmith
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