Medical device tax is small ball, but hey, you gotta start somewhere!! I am NOT going to criticize until I can’t take it anymore.
I will take the bits and pieces approach in the absence of anything else concrete. McConnell is being practical. You have to have a ready alternative to some of these programs and we are not there yet. Better to lop off some of the obvious overgrowths of bureaucracy, i.e. Med.Device Taxes, pull off the lowest hanging of the rotting fruit. It is a beginning.
Eventually, McConnell is going to have to make peace with the Tea Party. Either extend that olive branch yourself, or contend with Ted Cruz openly trying to snatch the branch away from McConnell’s control. All in good time.
“Medical devise” is loaded with graft and corruption. For example, my neighbor needed anti-embolism stockings…$15 - $50 at amazon or walgreens…A little digging online revealed that if he got them by prescription, Medicare pays $250 for them.
So this is an obvious and I hope easy place to start chipping away at the Obamadoggle. Also a good place to reveal these scams in a very clear way that even dems can understand.
Perhaps Mitch can have a Boondoggle of the Week website…or presser.
It will be perceived as a tax cut for the rich, they should be smart enough to know that. It should never be mentioned, just included in some other bill.