The Trump administration has opened a Section 232 national security investigation into imported medical products. It is being sold as a supply-chain resilience effort. But it is a tax on Americans that raises healthcare costs for patients.
The Commerce Department’s probe covers medical equipment, personal protective equipment, and a wide range of health technologies used every day in hospitals and clinics. The scope is so sweeping that it now threatens robotics and medical devices—the tools modern medicine depends on.
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