Democrats Finally Admitting Obamacare is BadSixteen Democratic senators who voted for the Affordable Care Act are asking that one of its fundraising mechanisms, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices scheduled to take effect January 1, be delayed. Echoing arguments made by Republicans against Obamacare, the Democratic senators say the levy will cost jobs — in a statement Monday, Sen. Al Franken called it a “job-killing tax” — and also impair American competitiveness in the medical device field.The senators, who made the request in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, are Franken, Richard Durbin, Charles Schumer, Patty Murray, John Kerry, Kirsten Gillibrand, Amy Klobuchar, Joseph Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Robert Casey, Debbie Stabenow, Barbara Mikulski, Kay Hagan, Herb Kohl, Jeanne Shaheen, and Richard Blumenthal. All voted for Obamacare.Two other Democrats, senators-elect Joe Donnelly and Elizabeth Warren, also signed the letter. Donnelly voted for Obamacare as a member of the House. Warren was not in Congress at the time.“The medical technology industry directly employs over 400,000 people in the United States and is responsible for a total of two million skilled manufacturing jobs,” the senators wrote in a December 4 letter to Reid. “We must do all we can to ensure that our country maintains its global leadership position in the medical technology industry and keeps good jobs here at home.”http://www.reagancoalition.com/articles/2012/20121213003-dems-obamacare-admit.html
You'll like this one. The mandated medical records not only is a scam, but it's causing more paper work, more expense and less time actually "doctoring". My doctor abandoned his medical practice right after Obama was elected because he saw a lot of this coming. Now more are giving up and throwing in the towel.http://michellemalkin.com/2012/12/14/obamas-electronic-medical-records-scam/AND on an OT note: The more solar and wind power generators that are built will require more fossill fuel plants to be built to act as backup. I'll post the link later, but California is in a self-imposed funk over the cost of this.
If people only knew what it costs to keep the "lights on" in a hospital they would be shocked. all this did was increase costs.