as one top gop source put it, the headlines are terrible. >> cbo coverage estimates are consistently wrong. >> reporter: the white house did concede scores of american, perhaps millions, will be without health insurance if they're no longer mandated to buy it under obamacare. >> would you concede there will be some coverage losses? perhaps in the millions? that will there would be millions of people who will not have health insurance as a result of what you're doing? >> well, again, sure, except you have to look at the current situation. >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer tried to explain how the republican plan satisfies the president's promise to cover every american. >> the president is okay with millions of people -- >> no, he's not. right now they're not getting that. by giving them more chois at a lower cost, more americans can buy health care for their family or themselves or in a lot of cases for their business without paying the penalty. is system now is not working. >> reporter: even though the white house is rejecting the cbo's predictions on coverage it