New US plan leaves 14M fewer insured in 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Fourteen million fewer Americans will have health insurance next year under the Republican plan to replace Obamacare, a non-partisan congressional analysis projected on Monday (Tuesday in Manila), heaping pressure on President Donald Trump to make good on his pledge to broaden coverage.

By 2026, that number would shoot up to 24 million, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said, largely because the bill would undo the Obamacare rule that mandates people have health insurance.