Before we get to the show, a quick recommendation for another NPR podcast, embedded. The show is

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they're looking at videos of police encounters. This week, they have the story of a cop who got

shot at how the video of the incident had a strange and unpredictable afterlife. Find embedded now

on the NPR1 app or at npr.org slash podcasts. Hey y'all, this is Justin working third shift at

the gas station in Lawrence, Kansas. This podcast is recorded at 10.35 a.m. on Tuesday. Is today only

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coverage at npr.org and the NPR1 app and on your local public radio station. Okay, here's the show.

Hey there. It's the NPR Politics podcast here to discuss the Congressional Budget Office report

on the GOP's health care bill and to answer a few of your questions. I'm Tamar Keith. I cover

the White House. I'm Danielle Kurtzlavin, political reporter and I'm Susan Davis and I cover

Congress. Happy snow day, y'all. Yes. There's no snow days in the news. Yeah. This is true. This is why

we have to put on our snow pants and our snow boots and your at Yacht Tracks in your case, Tam. And

track all the way in. It is also Pi Day nerds. How far out can you go? 3.1415926535.

Ooh. That's a close comment on that. I have no comment for this situation. I hope I got that

right because we're going to get all sorts of emails if I got that wrong, man. But speaking of

nerds, the nonpartisan nerds at the CBO, the Congressional Budget Office released their report

on the American Health Care Act yesterday. This is what's known as a score and the American

Health Care Act is the Republican bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare.

And here are their projections. It would mean, according to this report, 14 million fewer people

would have health insurance by 2018. That number goes up to 24 million fewer people with coverage

by 2026. The bill also reduces the federal deficit by $337 billion over the next 10 years.

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