Obama Taxes Pacemakers, Heart Valves

by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann - October 24th, 2009 - Townhall.com

The more fiscal details of the health care bills emerge, the more appalling they seem. The Senate Finance Committee bill includes a broad provision taxing all manner of medical devices. This tax includes such frivolous luxuries as pacemakers, stents, artificial heart valves, defibrillators, automated wheelchairs, mechanized artificial limbs, replacement hips and knees, surgical gurneys, laparoscopic equipment and the like.

President Obama is planning to reduce the cost of medical care by taxing it!

This article documents the blackmail being practiced by the Obama regime in their efforts to get socialized medicine passed. What I still find ridiculous is the willingness of gullible groups to trust that Obama will live up to the corrupt deals he is negotiating to get their support. Why is anyone willing to support this fraud when as soon as it is passed Obama will start to renege on his side of the bargain? Did anyone not see how quickly obama threw Jeremiah Wright aside? Do they think that Obama truly honors anything but the most expedient way to garner his own power? What track record of trust has he established that would entice anyone to believe that he will be a man of his word?