The House of Representatives recently voted to repeal a tax on medical device makers. Lawmakers approved the measure 270-146, with 37 Democrats from states with a heavy presence of medical equipment makers like Minnesota, New York, and California joining all 233 voting Republicans. Most Democrats said the bill was yet another GOP attempt to weaken President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, which created the tax to help pay for that law’s expansion of health care coverage to 30 million Americans.
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