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Post by SamCogar Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:21 am

Drug-addicted babies cost state millions

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - More than 800 West Virginia women reported they abused drugs while pregnant during the past year, according to a study released Thursday.

About 100 babies born to those drug-using mothers had to be rushed to newborn intensive care units at hospitals, where they received specialized medical care that cost an estimated $4.3 million.

The government bore the bulk of those costs. Medicaid covered 83 percent of pregnant drug users in West Virginia last year, according to the report from the West Virginia Perinatal Partnership.

http://www.wvgazette.com/News/200811130774


100 babies cost taxpayers $4,300,000, ..... which equals $43,000 per baby even before it is 1 year old.

Then when you send them off to school it will cost the taxpayer another $100,000 per year of school tax dollars.

And that doesn't count all the other "freebie-$$$$$$$$$$$$" that are spent on their behalf.


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