Trump: Repeal individual mandate in tax reform

What it means: According to the Congressional Budget Office, repealing the ACA's individual mandate would increase the number of uninsured Americans by about 15 million; cause premiums to rise; and save the federal government roughly $380 billion over a decade. (Because fewer people would have insurance, the government would spend less on the ACA's subsidies.)

• That's a lot of savings to help make up for the revenue the government would lose through big tax cuts.
• And the individual mandate is an unpopular part of the ACA — with voters overall, and especially with conservatives.
• But because it would come at the cost of an unstable insurance market, it'll be a hard sell for the same moderate Republicans who opposed their party's repeal-and-replace bills.