{"id":5263,"date":"2016-12-09T12:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2016-12-09T12:53:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-09T17:53:33","slug":"the-medical-device-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=5263","title":{"rendered":"The Medical Device Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Lawmakers, lobbyists and industry executives are hoping the first business tax breaks President Trump delivers is to go to the U.S. medical device industry by permanently repealing the Medical Device Tax that was first imposed in January 2013 (temporary suspended last January) as a funding mechanism for Obamacare. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-medicaldevice-tax-idUSKBN13Y187\" target=\"_blank\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers, lobbyists and industry executives are hoping the first business tax breaks President Trump delivers is to go to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5264,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions\/5264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}