Thank you for that question. I think it's a very important one.
There is an example in my research—I just can't find it in my notes right away—of a specific country where they found that cuts to a health program that looked like budgetary savings, because they reduced expenditures on health, resulted in a significant or dramatic increase in the amount of time women spent on caregiving for elderly relatives or children. I think this is an excellent example of what I would call a false budget economy, where it looks like you saved money, but what you did was simply to put the costs onto other people, particularly women.
I think this is the sort of evidence that, if I were in your shoes, I would want to have in order to help me think through what the impact is of the decision I'm making.