Increase the amount of health care provided to newborn children
Pay for emergency transportation for newborn children to receive neonatal care
Provide counseling in retreat settings to veterans and their dependents
Estimated budgetary effects would primarily stem from
Hiring additional primary care physicians to provide services to female veterans
Paying for additional days of medical care for complicated births
Areas of significant uncertainty include
Estimating the number of physicians the Department of Veterans Affairs would hire to provide primary care services for female veterans and the amount of time needed to hire those staff
