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The Senate bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act was edging toward collapse on Monday after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it would increase the number of people without health insurance by 22 million by 2026. (Kaplan and Pear, 4/26)

Senate Republicans’ bill to erase major parts of the Affordable Care Act would cause an estimated 22 million more Americans to be uninsured by the end of the coming decade, while reducing federal spending by $321 billion during that time, according to the Congressional Budget Office. (Goldstein and Snell, 6/26)

The CBO says low-income Americans in their 50s and early 60s would be disproportionately likely to lose their health care coverage under the Senate bill. Although people buying insurance in the individual market would see lower premiums in many cases, the policies would cover less, and out-of-pocket costs would be higher. (Horsley, 6/26)

Under the Senate bill, average premiums for plans for single individuals would be about 20 percent higher in 2018 than under current law, in large part because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated, so fewer healthy people would enroll. Premiums would be about 10 percent higher than under current law in 2019, CBO said in its analysis of the Senate bill. Younger people would pay less for plans, CBO said. But in 2020, the year of the next presidential contest, average premiums for benchmark plans for single individuals would be about 30 percent lower than under current law, CBO said. (Young, 6/26)

The bill also allows states to repeal ObamaCare's requirements on what an insurance plan must cover, known as essential health benefits. That move could make certain services extremely expensive. (Sullivan, 6/26)

The CBO also analyzed the Senate bill provision that would allow states to use waivers to modify the health law’s essential health benefits that include items like prescription drugs, maternity coverage, mental health and substance abuse. In states where such waivers were granted, consumers could experience substantial cost increases for supplemental premiums or out-of-pocket spending, or choose to forgo services. Nearly half the population, the CBO estimates, would reside in states that seek these waivers.(Carey and Galewitz, 6/26)

The estimated coverage losses are just slightly less than for the House-passed version of the Obamacare repeal bill, which concern Republican moderates who have pushed Senate leaders to craft a more generous bill. (Cancryn, 6/26)

CBO previously estimated that 23 million fewer people would be covered under the bill passed by the House in May. President Trump told senators two weeks ago that the House bill was "mean" and he wanted the Senate bill to have more "heart." (Collins, 6/26)

The biggest increase in the uninsured would come from the bill’s rollback of Medicaid, the state-federal program that covers the poor. The GOP bill cuts spending on Medicaid by $772 billion over a decade, which would result in 15 million fewer people enrolled in the program in 2026 than under current law. Another 7 million wouldn’t have coverage in the individual insurance market. (Tracer, Edney and Dennis, 6/26)

Overall, 49 million people would be uninsured by 2026, the CBO estimated, compared with 28 million under current law. Some of the impact comes fast: 15 million more would be uninsured next year. By 2026, around 15 million fewer would be enrolled in Medicaid. (Tamari, 6/26)

Most people are focused on how many people would lose insurance under the Senate health-care bill compared with current law: an estimated 22 million, according to the new Congressional Budget Office analysis. But the report digs deeper into the kind of insurance that people, especially poor people, would be able to access -- and finds that it would be so financially burdensome with high deductibles that many people would choose not to sign up. (Johnson, 6/26)

A single person who earns about $26,500 a year now has an $800 deductible because of cost-sharing reductions paid to insurers. That would climb to $6,000 in 2020 after cost-sharing reductions end and the subsidies are linked to bronze rather than silver plans. Even though an average 40-year-old's monthly premiums would drop from $141 to $133, it wouldn't be a good trade-off. (Lee, 6/26)

“The CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation expect that this legislation would increase the number of uninsured people substantially,” the agency’s report said. “The increase would be disproportionately larger among older people with lower income — particularly people between 50 and 64 years old with income of less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level.” (Radelat, 6/26)

The Congressional Budget Office on Monday projected Senate Republicans' bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act would leave an estimated 22 million additional Americans without health insurance in the coming decade, as well as cut federal spending by $321 billion by 2026. That insurance prediction apparently didn't sit well with the White House, as the Trump administration put out a statement questioning the CBO's credibility, arguing that its analysis of the Affordable Care Act -- Democrats' 2010 health-care law also known as Obamacare -- was so flawed it proved the agency can't be trusted. (Ehrenfreund, 6/26)

[Here] are the four big numbers from the Congressional Budget Office’s analysis of the Senate Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. (Park and Andrews, 6/26)

The Senate’s Obamacare repeal bill would drive up the uninsured rate across all demographics, CBO estimates, but hit low-income Americans the hardest. (Cancryn, Fisher, Frostenson and McClure, 6/26)

Here are five of the CBO’s top-line findings. (Hackman, 6/26)

The Congressional Budget Office has released its analysis and score of the Senate GOP’s ObamaCare repeal bill.The big finding? The Senate bill would leave 22 million more people without insurance over the next decade compared to current law. Here are five takeaways from a report that will play a big role in the Senate’s discussions on ObamaCare. (Roubein, Hellmann and Weixel, 6/26)