MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Republicans took a new aggressive stance against the medical device tax, blaming the bill for what the National Republican Congressional Committee foresees as a coming shift overseas.
This latest attack built on previous studies, including a report from medical technology industry lobby AdvaMed, which concluded that the device tax, set to take effect Jan. 1, would cost the U.S. 43,000 jobs as companies attempt to recover from the new financial burden.
"Job creators repeatedly warned Democrats that this provision of Obamacare would ship jobs overseas and destroy jobs at home, but Democrats have nonetheless voted four times to keep it in place," according to the NRCC report.
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