Obamacare Looking to Tax Smartphones and Tablets
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- Created on Wednesday, 13 March 2013 08:08
- Written by Darrell Lect
Obamacare includes a 2.3% tax on medical device makers, adding millions of dollars in new revenue to fund the takeover of the health care industry by the government. To pay for this tax, companies are simply passing it on consumers. Every Senate Democrat voted for Obamacare, and this tax, but now some are trying to backpedal because it hurts their constituents. Now there's a new component to the medical device tax: taxing smartphones, tablets and health care apps because they're used as medical devices.