Obamacare Taxes Sick People

We know that the massive Government Care, er, Health care bill recently passed by Congress and signed by President Obama has provisions for tax increases. Lots of tax increases.
One of the most insidious of these increases is the tax on "medical devices".
The blog prof has a column today dealing with the economic impact on smaller medical device companies (it may put them out of business, further increasing unemployment).

And as to what constitutes a "medical device", it could range from that tampon you ladies use for your "treatment" every month, to possibly even the toothbrush you use for your daily prophylaxis!
(For you folks in Port St. Lucie, that's "brushing your teeth"!)

But, since Obama wants to include free preventative visits in his plan, who better to pay for them than those who are already sick or injured? If you need a wheelchair, or crutches or catheters, a pacemaker or a CPAP machine, hell, even a bedpan could be subject to a 2.3% excise tax to feed the government beast!

Consequently, those who require the most medical devices will end up paying for those who don't. Gosh. That certainly sounds liberal and fair, doesn't it? Not at all like those nasty insurance companies who took money from a large pool of perfectly healthy people and distributed it to those specifically who were sick or injured!

Glad this administration has its priorities straight! /sarcasm

I just thought of something else: Think about all those non-profit hospitals. The price of nearly everything they buy just went up over 2%! That should help them keep the doors open! Who utilize those hospitals? Sick and injured people. Go figure!

Cross posted at Say Anything