The most discouraging speech by McConnell, after the results were in, was the one where he said that they would go after the parts of Obamacare that most outrage Americans, “like the medical device tax”.
Now, I know the medical device tax is stupid, worse than stupid, in fact. But the only Americans who are “outraged by the medical device tax” go to work on K street every day.
Bad, bad, BAD to confess, in public no less, that the only Americans that matter to you are the ones you meet for dinner at the Palm.
I disagree with you on that one. Look at how strongly the senior voter demographic turned out for the GOP in this election. This move to dump the medical device tax is nothing more than pandering to these core supporters. Oddly enough, THIS may even have stronger legs than a move to dump the individual mandate ... since the individual mandate affects people who are mostly Obama supporters anyway.
McConnell and Boehner are both controlled by the same puppet masters.
My tagline is the only way to beat K Street.
Agreed.
My wife works for a medical device company. I’d bet 90% of the workers there know nothing about the medical device tax.
I even had one EE tell me that the tax was so small as to be meaningless.
In reality, EACH employee has to generate $50 per hour of additional profit for that plant in order to pay the tax.
$50 per hour! For the medical device tax alone.