That money goes right back into subsidizing health care. In effect, it just forces us all to buy the government health care. You have to pay the tax, so you have the choice of obeying and getting a subsidy to offset, or thinking independently and being out the amount of the tax. It's actually a pretty clever scheme, if your goal is to increase government power. The medical appliance manufacturers aren't a huge voting block. The taxpayers who have to pay those costs don't know they are -- they likely will be angry at the companies for charging so much and happy with the government for "helping them out." Everybody wins. And by "everybody," I mean "only government officials."
To confirm this all you need to do is converse with one of the occupy nitwits for five minutes and realize that they haven't the first clue as to whats going on. Worse. they feel discriminated against if you point this out to them.
They are well past the point where if left to their own devices, they would not survive.