Obamacare: Dental braces to be taxed

As part of the plan to pay for Obamacare a medical device tax was inserted into the legislation, but of course nobody wanted to actually define what constituted a medical device before the 2010 and 2012 elections because in all likelihood it would mean that Americans would be paying higher prices on these items and Barack Obama didn’t want to be seen as breaking his promise that middle class Americans would not see their taxes go up one dime.

Now here we are after the 2012 election and we are starting to learn what types of devices will be taxed and, as this article reports, dental braces are now considered a medical device and will be subjected to the Obamacare tax.

Technically the device manufacturer is paying the tax, however the cost will be passed on down to the consumer meaning higher prices for everyone whose child (or children) need braces.

When you couple the higher prices people will be paying under Obamacare with the fact that companies are beginning to either layoff current employees, freeze the hiring of new employees, or cutting the hours of employees to avoid the Obamacare mandate and we can see what a disaster this legislation is turning into–and it was all conveniently delayed until after Barack Obama ran for reelection.