Category: Healthcare

Kerry expresses concern over taxing the medical device industry

September 17, 2009 by MassDevice staff

Sen. John Kerry voiced concern, but not outright opposition, to a proposed $4 billion annual surcharge on medical device makers' sales.

Kerry, the lone senator from Massachusetts, issued a statement through his press office in Washington saying that, "we should explore whether there are better ways to raise revenue than assessing across the board excise taxes on specific sectors of the health industry."

Obama pitches Congress on healthcare reform

September 10, 2009 by MassDevice staff

One hundred years after Theodore Roosevelt first proposed reforms to the healthcare system, President Barack Obama offered up a few more details on his $900 billion initiative in a speech before Congress last night, but despite a few concessions offered to conservative opponents met with stiff partisan opposition.

In fact, in one case, a Republican Congressman called him an out-an-out liar.

House Energy & Commerce Committee approves healthcare reform bill

August 3, 2009 by MassDevice staff

A key Congressional committee sent a healthcare reform bill to the floor of the House of Representatives, just in time for its monthlong summer break, which would create a public health insurance plan to compete with private providers and ensure that about 95 percent of all Americans get health insurance, according to news reports