Affordable Care Act: What happens to the med-tech tax if Obamacare goes down? - from MassDevice

 

With a key provision of the Affordable Care Act possibly on the chopping block, MassDevice looks at how the medical device and biotechnology industries will fare if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down any of Obamacare's provisions.

Even if the U.S. Supreme Court finds a key provision of the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Actto be unconstitutional, it's likely the medical device tax will live to fight another day.

Kevin Outterson, director of Boston University's Health Law Program and a blogger on health policy at The Incidental Economist, told MassDevice.com that unless the most conservative position prevails, there will be a separate fight to determine how the Supremes' ruling will impact the sweeping reforms contained in the President Barack Obama's landmark legislation.

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