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I wonder which candidates the medical device firms donated to...ditto for big pharm, doctors, nurses, insurance companies...more importantly I wonder if Amy and Al know old people vote. So do their kids.

Obama Taxes Pacemakers, Heart Valves

The more fiscal details of the health care 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.

President Obama is planning to reduce the cost of medical care by taxing it!

Cross-posted at Sue Jeffers' KTLK Blog.