Technology Development Stalls

2.3% Medical Device Excise Tax in 2013 - after the elections

Tax on Sales - not profits

          Crush Entrepreneurs with slim or no profit margins

          Fortune 500 Stryker Corp - Layoff 1,000 to pay tax

          Covidien layoff 200 & moving plant work to Mexico

Medicare predicts $18.2 Billion higher health costs by 2018