Obama taxes pacemakers, heart valves

Has AARP woken up yet to how bad Obamacare would be for senior citizens and others or do they still have their head buried in the sand so not to hear what Obama wants to do with healthcare?

Now Obama wants to tax necessary medical items for people to live or make their lives more comfortable. How can you tell a patient that needs a knee replacement that they are going to be taxed? Why you ask? Because the industry that make these medical devices to improve people's lives told Obama they would not support Obamacare. For that, they are going to get taxed. If you disagree with the Obama agenda, you will suffer the consequences.

Someone better remind Obama that playing basketball is hard on his knees, but we expect him to pay the tax if he ever needs a replacement. Wonder what his mother-in-law thinks of his going after senior citizens on healthcare?

Obamacare gets worse by the day. We envision that Cap and Trade will be the same way as it rears its ugly head. In the meantime, Obama and his Chicago thugs continue to go after Fox News while the economy is in the tank.

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Obama taxes pacemakers, heart valves
The Hill
10/23/2009
Dick Morris

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.

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

The most recent Gallup Poll reflected that 49 percent of respondents said they believed that the ObamaCare plan will increase their healthcare costs. Only about 20 percent said it would lower them. It is taxes like these that substantiate this kind of concern.

The origins of this new medical device tax are troubling as well.

The medical device industry had its day at the White House, as did the insurance industry, the drug makers, the nurses and the doctors. In turn, each group heard the White House request that it come up with voluntary cuts in its healthcare costs and support Obama’s proposed changes in return for assurances that Congress would not impose deeper cuts (or, in the case of the doctors, that it would actually rescind cuts already scheduled under current statutes).

But, unlike all these other groups, the medical device industry refused the deal. This posture enraged the tyrants in the White House, who vowed to punish the industry with cuts imposed by Congress. The result was a decision by the revenue-hungry Senate Finance Committee to extract billions in funds from the industry.

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