A reader has more information concerning the medical device tax that may be repealed:
That tax was intended to fund ACA premium rebates for low income families and individuals to make their health insurance more affordable. Without that revenue stream, the ACA doesn’t work financially. Nothing more than a repub scheme to cripple the ACA when they lacked the votes to simply repeal it.
Shame on Klobuchar for caving to Medtronic who ships all their profits to Ireland anyway.
No doubt a bit of rock and a hard place for Senator Klobuchar, but at least it demonstrated that the Democrats were willing to differ among themselves when it came to a major piece of legislation – unlike the Republicans, who practice strict ideology and then whine and piss and moan when their unworkable legislation fails to get a single vote from the Democrats. A little compromise might have gotten them a long way, especially 8 years ago.
