Many of the medical equipment companies are in joint ventures with a state university medical school. Taxing them is like taxing the state university. Can the federal government tax a state university.
This is a conservative U.S. Supreme Court and I believe that last April they ruled you can't but a cap on damages against drug companies. Had to to with a woman musican that lost her arm to gangrene after a shot in the arm with an anti nausea drug,
What would happen if companies to not buy the government health care. Everone says companies with run to it destroying private health care. What would happen if the companies don't and it has to stand on it 's own. You never now what will really happen.
The last time we had a windfall tax was on oil companies and we all got to wait in lines out into the street to buy gas.