Best of MedCitizens: Device taxes, GOP-led(?) reform

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• Medical device tax would mostly hit the biggest firms. “The 10 largest medical device makers would have generated 86 percent of the $1.87 billion in excise taxes last year, had the healthcare reform law been in effect.”
• Partisan GOP delivered health care victory. “At the end of the day, the American public as a whole is likely to conclude that the Democrats played fair and thought for themselves. After all, unlike Republicans, not all Democrats voted in lockstep.”
• University of Akron building a better breast implant. “For the past decade, Dr. Judit E. Puskas,professor of polymer science at The University of Akron, has worked to develop a new and innovative breast prosthesis safer for implant patients than the current silicone variety.”