The Price of Zika? About $4 Million Per Child Wired Aug 2016
- Cost of pregnancy in states with Zika outbreaks will climb when you figure in the two rounds of Zika testing and monthly serial ultrasounds the CDC recommends for monitoring.
- “A very, very conservative guess would be that the medical costs of Zika would be around $600,000 for these families,”
- Plus indirect costs for
special schooling
modify their home and vehicles
loss of income for parents providing round-the-clock care. - Alfaro-Murillo estimates the total lifetime costs, medical and indirect, will reach $4.1 million.”
- "Medicaid will probably cover the majority of the medical treatments”
Comments by Vitamin D Life
- I can relate. My 104 year-old father-in -aw takes a lot of daily care
about 6 hours of my time
and 6 hours of care-givers (@ $25/hours ==> $54,000/year) - Probably the mother does not even have to be a US citizen – just have the birth in US and her birth defected child remain in the US
- Rough estimate 900 microcephalic children to increase Florida's Medicaid cost by 1%
Medicad Florida $9 billion annually
1% of annual = $90 million
$100,000 = rough guess of annual cost per child (assumes that Medicad does not pay for care-giving)
900 children = 1% addition
See also Vitamin D Life
- Zika in New York City - majority had recently been in the Dominican Republic - June 2016
Suspect that some women from the Dominican Republic are coming to the US to have their Zika - baby care paid by the US - Off topic – Caregiving of seniors at home – helpful hints