Why is that being downvoted? Obamacare does include a new tax on medical devices. http://www.medicaldevicestoday.com/2009/12/senate-approves-device-tax-detail

Why is that being downvoted? Obamacare does include a new tax on medical devices. http://www.medicaldevicestoday.com/2009/12/senate-approves-device-tax-details-now-up-to-house-senate-conferees.html http://www.medicaldevicestoday.com/2009/12/senate-approves-d... It's unclear how that tax will help us get new medical devices. OC also includes a limit on flexible spending accounts ($2500/employee year), which many of us have used to pay for things that aren't covered by insurance. ($2500 is just a bit more than laser eye surgery these days and is much less than it was when first introduced.) Folks with kids and other dependents get a lot of benefit from flex spending. (They can pay deductibles and so on.) There wasn't a limit before - most companies picked one around $4-5k, so folks near the max will be paying an extra $500-1k in taxes from just this change.. They aren't going to see any comparable savings. OC also significantly restricts the use of flexible spending accounts - they now can't be used for non-prescription drugs unless "prescribed". So, if you get yeast infections and have been curing them OTC, you can't get a break on the drug that always works for you unless you go to the doctor.... (I picked yeast infections because the "white knights" complain that we don't include women enough.)