The Senate puts Medicaid on the chopping block

After weeks of secret gestation in back rooms, the Senate released a discussion draft of the chamberís version of the American Health Care Act. Like the version passed through the House to cheers in May, it is likely to make health care less affordable for low-income, sick, and near-elderly people; it makes Obamacare tax credits for exchange coverage less generous; it restricts and slashes Medicaid funding deeply over the next decade; and it attempts to smooth euphemistically-named 'market disruptions' from all those reforms by injecting billions into state funds and reinsurance.