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No one knows exactly how many people got[cancellation] notices, because the health insurance market is largely private and highly fragmented. Analysts estimated the number at about 4 million (and potentially higher), out of a total insured population of about 262 million.

That was less than 2 percent, but there was no shortage of powerful anecdotes about canceled coverage.

2 percent of the existing insurances covered being cancelled because they could not meet even the reduced standards the ACA required for existing insurance policies-those existing policies did NOT have to meet the same standards the ACA policies did-is not a significant number, sorry. Even your article admits that.

One thing that needs saying: Before the ACA, there were a lot of crappy health care policies out there.

Policies with super high deductibles and little coverage-even emergency room care was not covered.

Employers, especially those who paid low wages, bought them because that way they could say they offered a health care plan. But when somebody really needed it, they had little applicable coverage.

The ACA allowed existing policies a break and did not require them to meet the standards the ACA policies had-but they wouldn't allow junk policies to take the place of the ACA policies.

Those small amount of cancellations were mostly those junk policies, and 4 million cancellations out of 262 milion people covered is essentially minuscule.

President Donald Trump's Mexican border wall may be delayed as Republicans consider putting its funding on hold.

Senator Roy Blunt said cash for the wall would be left out of a spending bill that must pass by 28 April to avert a partial government shutdown.

His remarks came on Tuesday after Mr Trump requested a supplemental funding bill to include money for the wall along with military programmes.

But Mr Blunt signalled Mr Trump's request could complicate negotiations.

"All of the committees, House and Senate leaderships, are working together to try to finalise the rest of the FY17 bill," said Mr Blunt, a senior member of the Appropriations Committee and his party's leadership.

"My guess is that comes together better without the supplemental."

He added that the supplemental funding could be dealt with "at a later time".

Mr Trump had proposed $1.5bn (£1.2bn) for his wall through Congress as part of the spending bill, which funds federal agencies to the end of the current fiscal year.

Two anti-abortion activists who secretly recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood have each been charged with 15 felonies in California.

David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt filmed undercover videos of themselves trying to buy foetal tissue, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said.

The pair created a fictitious bio-research firm and used fake identities for meetings with the healthcare group.

Prosecutors say their actions invaded people's privacy.

"The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society," Mr Becerra said.
"We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations."

Planned Parenthood is a non-profit group that provides reproductive health services to mostly lower-income Americans. Some of its clinics perform abortions.

According to the charges, Mr Daleiden and Ms Merritt engineered meetings with staff from Planned Parenthood and StemExpress, a California company that provides blood and tissue for medical research.

They allegedly taped people without consent 14 times between October 2013 and July 2015.

The pair face a charge for each individual secretly recorded, and a further count of criminal conspiracy to invade privacy.