‘Orthopedic Capital Of The World’ Is Still Hiring Despite Health Law Tax (NewsOK)
Amy Pritchett works as a machinist, running computerized mills in a medical device manufacturing plant. In this Q & A, Pritchett talks about what it was like to switch careers after 15 years as a nursing home worker. Don’t see the audio player? Click here to download.
WARSAW, Ind. – Tom Till eyes the morning’s email to see who’s angling to hire his students: A local employer, which had already hired 23 people in less than a year, says it needs three more to help make the artificial hips, knees and other devices manufactured here in the self-proclaimed “Orthopedic Capital of the World.”
“Everyone is going gangbusters,” said Till, who oversees an advanced manufacturing program at Ivy Tech Community College in this lake-dotted region two hours north of Indianapolis.
Till’s bullish view of the medical device industry – he says he can’t crank out graduates fast enough — contrasts sharply with what industry lobbyists are telling lawmakers in the nation’s capital. They say a 2.3 percent tax on the sale of medical devices put in place two years ago by the Affordable Care Act has already cost more tha...
