Story highlights Senate Republicans don't like the House-passed health care bill, but they're stuck with it

CBO said 23 million fewer Americans would have health care under the bill than under Obamacare by 2026

(CNN) The Congressional Budget Office released its highly anticipated score of the House Republican health care bill on Wednesday.

The reaction from Senate Republicans? We still don't like the House bill.

Twenty-three million fewer Americans would be insured under the House GOP bill than under Obamacare by 2026, CBO said. And while average premiums would be lower than they would be under current law, largely for young and healthy individuals, many would have to pay more.

For some, overall health care costs would go up by even "thousands of dollars" for the so-called essential health benefits that are currently treated as mandated coverage under Obamacare, the CBO report stated.

More than two weeks after their colleagues in the House managed to pass a bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Senate Republicans offered a tepid reaction -- at best -- to the CBO score.

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