"Device Tax"

I must admit that I have not followed the details of the "medical device tax" in the various proposals for healthcare reform. Medical Device Link posted this article about a new proposal to halve that tax. How is this going to work out? One thing seems to be certain: the industry will have to pay more for what exactly??? Ever since the FDA got the first MDUFMA approved (instituting fees for services we don't want but are mandated by law) the idea of industry sectors to pay for oversight seems to gain more and more traction. As long as the US controls the biggest medical device market in the world, that'll work, but has nobody noticed how much that position is eroding?