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]]> By: Mac Hall https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/03/18/controlling-the-message-in-the/#comment-491906 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:41:53 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/03/18/controlling-the-message-in-the/#comment-491906 “Good politicians, like good scientists, draw conclusions from facts. Bad politicians, like bad scientists, draw facts from conclusions.”
I do not know who said this first, but when I read the Sund-Barnes MPR online debate transcript, this quote seemed appropriate when Barnes embraced repealing the Medical Device Tax.
Mr. Barnes must be asked if he read the report that Representative Paulsen uses to project the industry’s job losses … and then he must be asked why he does not challenge Representative Paulsen’s claims.
According to many Paulsen press releases, implement Obamacare would result in a $20 billion tax on Minnesota-made medical devices; further Representative Paulsen cites a recent study found that the medical innovation tax, which goes into effect in 2013, puts as many as 43,000 medical device jobs at risk. Senator Klobuchar supports Representative Paulsen’s plans to repeal the tax as does Tim Walz, so this is not just a Republican slant.
BUT if you read the report – which was prepared for by the Medical Device industry – there are a number of statements that need to be considered … plus there are a number of possibilities. Representative Paulsen has picked one number and no one has challenged him on that.
The report states :
The analyses look at reasonable ranges of changes in demand and supply in response to a new tax. The tax would likely increase the after-tax prices to American consumers between .02% and 2.1% with most price increases around 1%.
The exact change in prices for medical devices as a result of the excise tax will depend on various economic parameters, but an estimated half or more of the excise tax will likely be passed along to end users in terms of higher prices.
Correspondingly, the quantity of medical devices demanded will decline in response to the higher prices that include the excise taxes.

Industry employment should decline between 2,300 and 23,000.
Table 9 shows IF DEMAND FALLS, employment will drop -2,352 … but no mention what happens if DEMAND INCREASES . It would take a five percent reduction in demand to hit the target that Mr. Paulsen is “fear-mongering”.
In reality, with more people being covered by insurance, DEMAND could INCREASE … meaning MORE JOBS.
Instead Representative Paulsen assumes that people will decline to pay a 1% price increase for necessary medical devices and accept poor health instead — really ?

Yep, we need more scientists in Congress … more Rush Holts and less businessmen like Erik Paulsen.

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