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Modern Healthcare has a unique angle on President Trump's proposed border tax: It could hit the medical supplies industry pretty hard. Medical supplies are the second-largest expense for hospitals, and any price spikes as a result of the border tax could severely affect budgets.

An interesting stat: Between January and November 2016, the United States imported $20 billion in medical, surgical, dental and veterinarian instruments from around the world — $5.4 billion of which came from Mexico.

Border tax could hit medical supplies industry

And that's a big problem for budget-conscious hospitals.

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Modern Healthcare <a class="gtmContentClick" data-vars-link-text="has a unique angle" data-vars-click-url="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170126/NEWS/170129930/medical-supplies-would-be-hit-by-trumps-proposed-20-tax-on-mexican" data-vars-content-id="b18c22de-b804-4376-8975-d4d9816ac07a" data-vars-headline="Border tax could hit medical supplies industry" data-vars-event-category="story" data-vars-sub-category="story" data-vars-item="in_content_link" href="http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170126/NEWS/170129930/medical-supplies-would-be-hit-by-trumps-proposed-20-tax-on-mexican" target="_blank">has a unique angle</a> on President Trump&#x27;s proposed border tax: It could hit the medical supplies industry pretty hard. Medical supplies are the second-largest expense for hospitals, and any price spikes as a result of the border tax could severely affect budgets.An interesting stat: Between January and November 2016, the United States imported $20 billion in medical, surgical, dental and veterinarian instruments from around the world — $5.4 billion of which came from Mexico.

Border tax could hit medical supplies industry

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