South Jordan • A tax on medical devices was designed to generate billions of dollars a year to help pay for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. Republicans suspended it for two years, but Rep. Mia Love says Utah jobs may disappear if it is not erased forever.
She called for that permanent action Monday at a news conference surrounded by officials from Utah’s medical device industry at the headquarters of Merit Medical, one of the state’s largest political donors.
Merit’s founder, Fred Lamproplous, for example, personally gave the maximum-allowed $8,100 to Love’s campaign this election cycle, plus another $18,100 to her Love Victory Committee PAC.