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Taxing Medical Progress to Death

LuvMyGrandkids Wrote: Oct 20, 2012 12:58 PM

This is an example of provisions of Obamacare that will negatively impact the quality of our healthcare. Liberals say, "But don't you want everyone to have health insurance." It's not that simple!! They will not discuss the 2600 pages of taxes, fees, rules, regulations, etc. that will destroy the quality of our healthcare! So many people voting Nov. 6 are just not informed about these provisions and have no idea of the long term consequences of Obamacare. Medicare recipients should be concerned because they are probably the largest group needing medical devices. Also, the IPAB is another HUGE provision of Obamacare that few people know about. Obamacare must be repealed and replaced!!!

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Taxing Medical Progress to Death

Two years ago this month, as public debate over Obamacare raged, former President Bill Clinton rushed to the hospital because of a heart condition. He immediately underwent a procedure to place two stents in one of his coronary arteries. It was a timely reminder about the dangers of stifling private-sector medical innovation. No one listened.

Stents don't grow on trees. They were not created, developed, marketed or sold by government bureaucrats and lawmakers. One of the nation's top stent manufacturers, Boston Scientific, warned at the time that Obamacare's punitive medical device tax would lead to worker losses and research...

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