Greg Klein reports in The Daily Star that on July 5 the Otsego County Board of Representatives shelved a resolution backing Rep. John Faso's amendment in the American Health Care Act that shifts Medicaid costs from counties to the state. A standing-room-only crowd spoke for an hour against the non-binding resolution, eventually causing the bill sponsor, administrative committee chair Craig Gelbsman, a Republican, to pull the resolution. In the current version of the Republican tax cut plan that cuts health care coverage in Washington D.C., Faso, from Kinderhook, and other New York Republicans have successfully attached an amendment that would essentially raise taxes on renters, as homeowners get a tax break, and everyone else gets a tax hike when the state has to cover the cost of the shift in Medicaid costs. Edwin J. Frazier Jr., another Republican on the board, objected to pulling the resolution. Read the full story in The Daily Star.