Geez, about freaking time. Should have done this a long time ago.
Why is health care so expensive? The government. I’ll call this exhibit 2.3.3.1.
Knowing these idiots, it probably won’t pass the Senate.
Another OBAMA TAX squashed. WINNING!!!
good. many medical devices do great good for people, some are absolute necessities
they should NOT be taxed!
I remember this being the part that hurt veterinarians, too.
hooray for the house, but these things are better done as part of a bill not standalone. It may not even get to the Senate floor.
Stick it in a bill that you know the Senate wants to pass.
That’s how things get done in Congress.
Quite a few demoncats joined in
Interesting
Hopefully it will pass.
I need a new toothbrush.
What about ACA’s 3.8% surtax on investment income? When is that going to be removed?
Right, because it's the Government's money and not yours!
[Passage of the repeal in the Senate though would be uncertain with the usual three suspects plus the absence of McShame. ]
You can bet on the Dem’s in Trump states getting behind this repeal... if they have any hope for re-election.
Good.
It was costing some people and arm and a leg................LITERALLY!.................
How did that tax last so long? It punishes those who manufacture medical devices in the US.
A good and necessary step.
However, I am still not impressed that large, powerful industries manage to get the Obamacare burden lifted from us while John Q. Public is still SCROOOOOD.
Douchebags. Just repeal the AFA, also known as Obamacare.
The article said: Supporters of the tax said a repeal will deprive the government of about $20 billion over the next decade, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Correction: Supporters of the tax are ignoring the fact that a repeal will help lower costs and curtail the growth of medical tourism which people are doing in increasing numbers because of all the taxes, regulations, and lack of consumer protection on fraud/monopolies in the American health care industry has made it more affordable for people to travel for medical care than to stay home for their medical care.
In reality almost all Americans would be much better off getting medical care as close to home as possible. However due to the huge costs (thanks to the government interference in the free market) here.
Thousands of lawsuits are filed in America every day. Anyone know of any such lawsuit for anti-trust, consumer fraud, or other marketplace monopoly/manipulation reasons against a health care provider or insurance company that has actually prevailed?
What types of communities do each of us live in? Pro-Health-Care-Corruption ones where the restaurants and gas stations are more transparent about pricing? Or ones where our city councils, mayors, and county commissioners actually care about us having a fair health care system where our health care providers are more transparent about pricing than the gas stations are about the per-gallon price or the restaurants are about the menu prices?
All it would take is to live in a State that has a Governor/legislature that is pro free market to make it possible for pro free market communities to get rid of the scourge we face in America with health care pricing corruption. If such untransparent businesses were to lose their city licenses and ability to win court collection judgments for harassing people to pay bills when they violate municipal ordinances on pricing transparency then we’d see them self-reform. We already know how to facilitate a free market here in America. That’s an important role of government. Monopolies/Fraud have no place in the free market except to have their ability to collect debts and have their monopoly contracts be upheld in the courts.
“Supporters of the tax said a repeal will deprive the government of about $20 billion over the next decade,”
What they used to admit to in secret, they now admit openly.