A Winner In GOP Plans To Repeal Obamacare: Tanning Salons

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – As Republicans try to shore up support for their health care overhaul, one group can’t wait for the replacement: owners of tanning salons.
President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act imposed a 10 percent tax on tanning as a way to help fund provisions of the law that expanded coverage for some 20 million Americans. The so-called tan tax took a heavy toll on the industry.
Nearly 10,000 salons closed in the U.S. since Obama’s law went into ef