[Toirdhealbheach Beucail]

Actually, I don’t think this is the case. I work in the Medical Device industry. Most medical device products are not directly purchased by consumers but by intermediaries - clinical labs, hospitals, etc. - who are then dealing with insurance companies who negotiate the price further. There is no way to directly raise the price. More companies than not will simply eat the cost - and act accordingly.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Yes, but this is a case where the symbolism is possibly more important than the substance. If you are at all, even the slightest interested in providing improved medical care, how in the name of hell can you justify cranking up the price of a wheelchair or a stent? OK, if the price of steel goes up, a wheelchair could easily become more expensive. Or it might impact the price of a stent (I am assuming they have some stainless in their construction but I don't know that for a fact) Sure, if those commodity prices rise, tough luck. But to raise the price of palliative, life-extending items just because you can? I find that egregious, not that that's the only piece of crap in 0bamacare. And in case it isn't obvious, the fact that Repubs failed to make this argument against "caring for the little guy" or the sick is once again, a complete failure in messaging.