{"id":21833,"date":"2014-11-13T19:12:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21833"},"modified":"2014-11-13T19:12:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T00:12:48","slug":"repeal-of-obamacare%e2%80%99s-medical-device-tax-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21833\/repeal-of-obamacare%e2%80%99s-medical-device-tax-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Repeal of ObamaCare\u2019s Medical Device Tax Coming Soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Repealing ObamaCare\u2019s medical device tax is one of the ways to deprive the controversial health law of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/11\/12\/us-usa-tax-devices-idUSKCN0IW2NE20141112 \" target=\"_blank\">$30 billion in funding<\/a>, so it\u2019s no wonder Republicans in Congress are getting ready to do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike other features of ObamaCare \u2013 such as the individual and employer mandates \u2013 the medical device tax has bipartisan opposition because it <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/2375-going-deeper-on-krauthammers-plan-to-repeal-obamacare\" target=\"_blank\">threatens up to 43,000 jobs<\/a>. So, even though President Barack Obama would likely veto any repeal bills that land on his desk, a measure killing the medical device tax might be able to attract enough votes to override him.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, repealing the medical device tax might convince Democrats in Congress that ObamaCare isn\u2019t sacrosanct. Maybe then they\u2019ll be open to trying something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Repealing ObamaCare\u2019s medical device tax is one of the ways to deprive the controversial health law of $30 billion in funding, so it\u2019s no wonder Republicans in Congress are getting ready to do just that. Unlike other features of ObamaCare \u2013 such as the individual and employer mandates \u2013 the medical device tax has bipartisan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,35,1001,105],"class_list":["post-21833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-obamacare","tag-repeal","tag-tax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21833"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21838,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21833\/revisions\/21838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}