{"id":19636,"date":"2010-07-06T07:10:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19636"},"modified":"2010-07-06T07:10:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T11:10:57","slug":"democrats-vote-to-tax-veterans-for-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19636","title":{"rendered":"Democrats vote to tax veterans for medical devices"},"content":{"rendered":"

Orin Hatch tried to exempt veterans from a planned tax on prosthetic devices in the Senate according to The Examiner<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The health care overhaul passed by Congress and signed into law by President Barack Obama earlier this year contains a new tax on medical devices such as prosthetic limbs, pacemakers, and wheelchairs. This tax, which its proponents claim will raise $20 billion over the next ten years, contains no exemption for the nation’s 22 million veterans. In fact, Senate Democrats specifically refused to exempt veterans from the tax., according to officials from the non-partisan, public interest group Americans for Tax Reform<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On March 24 2010, Senate Democrats rejected an amendment offered by Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) to the healthcare bill. This amendment (SA 3644) would have prevented the medical device tax from hitting veterans covered by the Veterans Healthcare Program or TRICARE for Life.<\/p>\n

This amendment was rejected by a vote of 44-54. All but five Democrat senators voted in favor of retaining the tax for veterans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“On March 24, Senate Democrats had the opportunity to exempt our veterans from Obamacare’s new tax on medical devices such as prosthetic limbs. But 54 Democrats voted against the measure. They chose to side with the tax-and-spend crowd in Washington over our wounded warriors,” said Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform.<\/p>\n

“This is one of the many reasons Harry Reid and the Democrats did not want Americans to read the 2,500 page health care bill before it was passed,” Norquist added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I wonder why this is the first we’re hearing of this – of course I mean the “regular guys” we. Like I’ve said, this administration is going to try and balance the budget on the backs of retirees and veterans – the same people who don’t get increases in their income yet end up paying more so Democrats can buy patronage from the itinerant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orin Hatch tried to exempt veterans from a planned tax on prosthetic devices in the Senate … Democrats vote to tax veterans for medical devices<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}