Sweeping White House promises that insurance premiums will fall and more people will have coverage under the Obamacare replacement plan may be hard to keep as conservatives demand limits to government involvement in health care before they support the measure.

Top officials from Donald Trump's administration fanned out across political talk shows on Sunday to sell the merits of the American Health Care Act, the House bill intended to replace former President Barack Obama's signature health law.

Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services, said in a pre-recorded interview aired on NBC's "Meet the Press" that under the administration's plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, more people will have health insurance coverage, and costs will fall. People on Medicaid wouldn't be forced off, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn added on "Fox News Sunday."

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