The Congressional Budget Office estimates the Senate and House bills would save $132 billion and $138 billion respectively.

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Fiscally minded "Blue Dog" Democrats in the House and conservative Democrats in the Senate are worried about estimates of how much the plans will cost.

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The CBO estimates that the Senate bill would reduce the number of uninsured by about 31 million, the main GOP plan would reduce the number by about 3 million.

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The scores cited below are 10-year estimates from the Joint Committee on Taxation provided by the Senate Finance Committee.

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