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Friday, October 23, 2009
Obama to tax ICDs, pacemakers
I just read this story over at The Hill:
The more the fiscal details of the healthcare bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, replacement hips and knees, surgical gurneys, laparoscopic equipment and the like.
Funny, I just now finished reading physician David Gratzer's new book,Why Obama's Government Takeover of Health Care Will Be a Disaster which states that if Barack Obama has his way, the American health care system is headed for a train wreck. The train wreck is here, folks, and if we don't continue to fight back, those of us with severe medical problems will pay the price.
Labels: healthcare, politics
posted by Helen at 2:06 PM
13 Comments:
Blogger DADvocate said...
Making health care affordable for all by making health care more expensive? Makes perfect sense to me.
At some point in our lives virtually all of us will need medical devices of some sort. This is complete idiocy.
3:26 PM, October 23, 2009
Blogger Dr.D said...
I recently had a pacemaker put in. Does this mean that I will pay an annual tax on it? Or would that be a one shot tax, like a sales tax? If it is a reoccurring tax, can I avoid the tax by having it removed? (I can live, for a while at least, without it.) What a deal ObamaCare is going to be!
3:45 PM, October 23, 2009
Blogger Helen said...
Dr. D,
I think the tax will be to the medical suppliers but my guess is that it will be passed down to those of us who need these devices.
4:42 PM, October 23, 2009
Blogger fred said...
Headed for train wreck? We are there without Obama....and getting worse and worse.
Now I am not concerned about myself. My wife gets health coverage. But what she is given in health coverage is money she is not given in salary.
And how many people that had coverage have lost it when they lost jobs? And
how many with pre-existing conditions (too fat, too thin, diabetes etc) can't get covered? And how many jobs now charge the worker for part of the coverage?
Govt involved? sure. Medicare, medicaid, V.A. and all our military...and it works!
Why not stop griping and offer a solution. What Would You Do to make it work?
4:53 PM, October 23, 2009
Blogger Alex said...
The way Barry's approval rating is skyrocketing DOWNWARDS at historical rates, he won't be passing anything. So just hunker down my fellow conservatives & Libertarians and we can defeat this Alinskyite yet.
5:15 PM, October 23, 2009
Blogger TMink said...
fred wrote: "Medicare, medicaid, V.A. and all our military...and it works!"
You don't work in health care of have any of those insurances do you fred?
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