Help me out: What's the big GOP insistence on a medical device tax repeal/delay?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Is there any actual ideological position behind it, other than "taxes are bad"?

Would ordinary Americans even feel the impact of a medical device tax?

Or is it being fueled by medical device manufacturing interest groups?

Just wondering what it has to do with anything.

[cynatnite]

1. I read that medical device manufacturers gave millions to repukes to get rid of the tax...

Definitely did not get their money's worth.

[scheming daemons]

2. Manufacturers donate lots of money.......

[bunnies]

3. It funds the ACA in part.

Comes down to that, really.

[LonePirate]

4. Greed from corporations and fat cats not to mention the ACA funding aspects

[PoliticAverse]

5. Primarily the Medical devices industry and its lobbyists...

note also though that some Democrats have also opposed the tax. For more background
on the issue see: http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/10/09/massachusetts-delegation-withholds-support-device-tax-repeal-end-shutdown-despite-previous-backing/ET8Vz0cvZSy0jDQGAL5QpK/story.html

[geek tragedy]

6. The Tea Party crowd OPPOSED having the repeal in the House bill.

It was dropped as a concession to Louie Gohmert, not Obama/Reid.

[spanone]

7. donors pay big money to keep taxes away from them...medical lobby

[Gothmog]

8. Device manufacturers are based in GOP districts

[sinkingfeeling]

9. It funds a whole lot of 'Obamacare'.

[Tx4obama]

10. Medical device makers flex muscle, arm way into debt limit fight

10/14/13

Medical device makers flex muscle, arm way into debt limit fight

Article here: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/medical-device-makers-flex-muscle-arm-way-into-debt-limit-fight-98304.html?hp=r18