MASSDEVICE ON CALL — American Action Forum president and former Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin called for an end to the 2.3% medical device tax, calling the levy a "policy lemon" that unfairly injures small businesses that are incubators of innovation.
"The medical device tax is a sure-fire barrier to innovating lifesaving technologies," Holtz-Eakin wrote in an editorial for The Hill. "That is, the device tax will make more expensive exactly the kind of innovative, cost-saving health care that experts recognize is the most beneficial in the U.S. health care system."
The American Action Forum has spoken out against the medical device tax in the past, releasing in 2012 a report estimating that the tax would result in layoffs of at least 14,500 and possibly as many as 47,100.
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