Noam N. Levey--Contact Reporter:

"The healthcare bill Senate Republican leaders unveiled last week would increase the number of people in the U.S. without health coverage by 22 million and push up medical costs for millions of other poor and sick Americans, according to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The report -- which comes just days after President Trump called for a bill “with heart” -- outlines how the GOP plan would cause a widespread erosion in basic health protections, driven by more than $1 trillion in cuts to federal healthcare spending over the next decade."