If the tax was not supposed to be passed along as a cost of doing business, then it seems that it was intended to be a penalty to these providers, rather than just a tax. They should not be demonized for increasing their costs to cover the tax, IMHO.
So what if they lose money on each device, let them make it up on volume.
Well, duh...
Businesses passing on their government regulatory costs and taxes to consumers by raising their prices? Tell me it ain’t so...
That’s called how you run a business and stay afloat when the federal mafia have their hands in your back pockets. I thought the liberals were supposedly smarter yet they don’t get this.../s
All costs of operation are passed on to consumers. Period. Reuters is accusing them of nothing more than doing business.
And no one ever thought that increased taxes on business would be passed on down the chain? It is called Trickle Down Taxes, just like Wealth.
This is pretty damned Funny, for the last 30 years HOSPITALS have been Pushing the Costs of treating the Uninsured and Illegals onto us Insured Citizens with the means and ability to pay. What was that line about not throwing stones when you live in a glass house
Corporations that sell products do not pay taxes. They collect them.
The taxes imposed are part of their cost of doing business, and the effect is to make their product more expensive. If the product is not being marketed for the ultimate profit of the maker, very soon it is no longer being produced at all.
What part of economics does this regime now squatting in the White Hut not understand? One is inclined to believe, not one bit of the dismal science of economics is within their grasp.
These companies were unfairly singled out along with tanning salons. Now they are demonized further.
Disgusting.
What does the facist group suggest their facist government do about this “outrage”? Put some CEOs in jail? Or a reeducation camp?
We can’t afford any of the socialists involved in the medical racket in any way.
There’s a long list of medical professional organizations lobbying against our Second Amendment, BTW. They’ve already crushed traditional family structure.
All taxes are passed on it’s why everything costs so much,gubment leaders at work.
Rush Limbaugh just had a caller who stated that under obamacare (actually since the early ‘90’s) anyone under medicaid would have to have their home attached for the cost of coverage & benefits.
TRUE! I was very ill in the 90’s, could not work and checked into medicaid..YES, they can LIEN your home for the cost of coverage...that was Oregon. I refused to apply with this rule and sold my home to get medical care. I also checked out California...same thing.
The difference now, is that the IRS will be charged with compliance and YOU WILL lose the equity in your home if you get ‘government healthcare!’
BELIEVE IT!
Budget reconciliation act 1993
Hospital management groups should orient toward self-supply through backward integration and set a fine example by fully absorbing these mandated Obamacare taxes resulting in additional supply costs. Problem solved.
EVERY cost is passed on down the line no matter what it is. Fees, taxes, transportation costs, everything. Anyone who thinks differently should try running a business someday.
By the way these costs keep trickling down until they get to the bottom where they finally end up being paid for by the consumer.
JB