Michael Hiltzik: Suddenly, the GOP tax bill has morphed into an attack on your health care

The line going around Washington these days is that the Republicans previously tried to hide a tax cut for the rich in their Obamacare repeal measures; and now they're hiding an Obamacare repeal inside their tax cut bill.

That's correct. The Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday slipped a provision into its tax cut bill that would effectively repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate. On the surface, this is a fiscal measure - it would theoretically reduce the federal deficit by $338 billion over 10 years, according to the Congressional