Wow! The IRS has collected $1.4B in medtech excise tax payments in 2013

Exclusive: IRS collected $1.4B in medtech excise tax payments in 2013 (MassDevice)
The IRS calculates that medtech companies paid the federal government $1.4 billion in medical device excise taxes in 2013, according to a response to a Freedom of Information Act request by MassDevice.com.
Medical device companies ponied up $1.4 billion in excise tax payments to the federal government in 2013 to pay for Obamacare, according to documents supplied to MassDevice.com by the Internal Revenue Service.
The $1.4 billion in levies paid by medtech companies to the feds last year came during the 1st year o...