The health care boondoggle going down in Congress just keeps getting worse. Ed Morrissey at Hot Air did a little digging through the FDA's listing of items that would be taxed under Senator Baucus' debacle of a bill.

Originally, the bill was going to include a tax on all medical items. Backlash stemming from Amanda Carpenter's exposure of this nonsense led Baucus to only tax Class II and up items costing over $100. Which includes:
 

• Mammograms
• Dental x-rays
• Hip, knee, ankle and breast prosthetics
• Dentures, both partial and full
• IUDs
• Sickle-cell anemia tests
• Dialysis catheters

and so on.

To say this is outrageous would be redundant, don't you think?

Let's review how this kind of taxation works, shall we? When a provider has to pay more upfront for supplies that they will use in treating patients, the cost has to be compensated for. Prices go up because taxes go up. Either the patient's private insurance will be burdened with the cost, which will mean everyone using that insurance company will feel the heat, and eventually the cost of private insurance will be too burdensome. Meaning, if such a thing is available, patients will turn to government insurance. Meaning all of us have to pick up the tab - in our taxes.

Vicious cycle. Vicious plan.