Insured population jumps with Clinton, plummets with Trump: What you need to know

The differences between Democratic Candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican Candidate Donald Trump are numerous and vast, including with their health plans, CNBC reports.

Here's what you should know.

1. If Ms. Clinton is elected and her health plan implemented, 9.6 million more Americans would have insurance. If Mr. Trump is elected, more than 25 million would lose coverage, according to analysis by the Commonwealth Fund.

2. Out-of-pocket expenses for Ms. Clinton would drop while Mr. Trump's plan would rise them "significantly."

3. Ms. Clinton wants to tweak the Affordable Care Act while Mr. Trump wants to repeal the ACA and replace it with a tax deduction. He'd also like to allow people to deduct the cost of their premiums from their income taxes.

4. Mr. Trump's plan would cost the federal government less than Ms. Clinton's.

5. If Mr. Trump was to only successfully repeal the ACA, an estimated 15.6 million people would lose coverage. However, 2.7 million people earning more than $60,750 annually would gain coverage under his plan.

Those additions would increase out-of-pocket costs by $300 to $2,500.

6 Ms. Clinton's proposals would help low and moderate income families by reducing out-of-pockets by 33 percent.

7. Mr. Trump's campaign rejected the analysis and described it as a piece of fiction.

Deputy Communications Director for Mr. Trump Jessica Ditto said, "Their ludicrous claim that 20 million now covered would lose their coverage following a repeal is immediately disproven by the fact that any replacement we would adopt would ensure that those now receiving 'premium support' would be given subsidies or other forms of support to purchase health insurance in the private market through health savings accounts. That single fact alone renders the report null and void."

8. Ms. Clinton's advisory Jacob Leibenluft said that she would expand on the current healthcare plan, but said the analysis made some "faulty assumptions" concerning the cost of her plan.

9. The proposal was based on policies on the candidate's websites. Researchers also reached out to the campaigns directly. The Clintons responded to the questions, while the Trump campaign referred the researches to his website. Both campaigns had a chance to review the findings before its release.

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