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Old 6th November 2009, 10:23 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Excise Tax On Tanning Beds in Pelosi's Healthcare Bill
Sec. 552: Small Medical Device Companies Hit with Massive Tax

Under Speaker Pelosi’s health care bill, medical device makers would pay a 2.5% excise tax on sales of their products, roughly ninety percent of whom are small businesses. The Medical Device Manufacturers Association estimates the cost to their industry would exceed $20 billion over 10 years.

  • `(a) In General- There is hereby imposed on the first taxable sale of any medical device a tax equal to 2.5 percent of the price for which so sold.
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Old 6th November 2009, 10:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
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So a tanning bed is a "medical device"?
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So a tanning bed is a "medical device"?
Yep. A Class I Medical Device. That's why we are regulated by the FDA.
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Yep. A Class I Medical Device. That's why we are regulated by the FDA.
Then why the f^*# are we dealing with all the bulls*^& that we kill people.
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Then why the f^*# are we dealing with all the bulls*^& that we kill people.
The flipside is, that's how Obama can ban indoor tanning businesses anytime he wants. All he has to do is have the FDA reclassify tanning beds as a Class II medical device...

Poof.
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Tanning lamps are also Class I medical devices, so replacement lamps would get hit with the excise tax, too.
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Old 6th November 2009, 12:50 PM   #7 (permalink)
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what is a class II medical device
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Old 6th November 2009, 01:04 PM   #8 (permalink)
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aw yea!
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Old 6th November 2009, 01:10 PM   #9 (permalink)
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Our goverment is like a snowball rolling down hill. It just keeps getting bigger & bigger. And all it does is spend/waste money. In the next generation or two every single thing will have a excise tax on it in order to fund the goverment.

Heck, when you think about it, everything already does. with the taxes on the shipping and freight industires. Those taxes drive up the cost of everything.

They'll find a way to tax air before it's over with. Everyone will be require to wear a breathing meter. You will have to pay someone to read your meter and determine your tax bill for breathing.
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They'll find a way to tax air before it's over with. Everyone will be require to wear a breathing meter. You will have to pay someone to read your meter and determine your tax bill for breathing.
Like "Cap & Trade" tax on CO2, that bad stuff everybody exhales.

That bill passed the House and is stuck, for the time being, in The Senate.
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Old 6th November 2009, 06:23 PM   #11 (permalink)
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It is fairly simple to register a class 1 medical device. A class 2 device registration is much more complex and expensive.
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As I posted weeks ago, I saw this one coming.
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Old 7th November 2009, 09:38 AM   #13 (permalink)
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LMFAO, I like the way you think, so we technically have medical devices in our salons, but god forbid we ever make a statement about the benefits of our class I medical devices, whatever the f#^* that means!
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Obamacare just passed in the House on a party-line vote. Weasels.

It's up to the Senate, now, to do the right thing and kill the bill.
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