Herrick, Devon. "The Medical Device Tax Will Devastate the Medical Technology Industry." Medical Technology. Ed. Carol Ullmann and Lynn M. Zott. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "The Job-Killing Medical Device Tax." National Center for Policy Analysis Issue Briefs, Health. 2012. Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.
This source is talking about what will happen to the economy when the Affordable Care Act is passed. Basically there is a provision that increases tax on medical tools by about 2.3%. This article is saying how companies will have to layoff employees and cut hours and pay to muster up the money for that 2.3% tax increase. Most medical supply companies are small and private, is what the article claims, and a tax increase by this much could be the downfall of there whole company, or at least an extreme setback.
This is opposing view point is a very useful source. It provides a possibility of something that no one has really been talking about and gives numbers and statistics to back up the articles theory. While responding to the points in this article when I write my own rhetoric, I plan on pointing out the merits of this argument and how I do believe that this might be an a consequence of the ACA.
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