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Come back here to try to make a difference. I want to congratulate you on the difference you have made. Now one of the questions i would ask you is why youre willing to leave a place with so much responsibility and background and capability to be willing to be the secretary of health and Human Services. Thank you, senator. When i think about the mission of the department of health and Human Services, which is to improve the health, safety, and wellbeing of the American People, its what ive liter...

Are you worried about taking away the one change you may have to get rid of obamacare by refusing to vote for that leadership bill? >> well, actually think theres much more unity than people think. one of the things thats united republicans since 2010 is repeal. so i think were very, very united stated on repeal. not so much on replace. so i think the real problem is adding replacement to the repeal bill. we voted about a year ago on repeal and it was nearly unanimous. i think we could do that a...

Skeptical republicans? >> two key players to watch for the administration are former house members, mick mulvaney and dr. tom price. mulvaney was a founding member of the conservative house freedom caucus. theyre expected to address concerns like these coming from fellow republicans. >> were unified as republicans for repeal. separate replacement, lets vote on a couple different versions. lets get people to come together for their ideas. if they force us to have big government replacement bills,...

>> were unified for repeal were not so unified on replacement. but separate that and lets try to vote on that. if they force us to have big government replacement bills, on, on the repeal builder not to win. >> other republican leaders believe that if there too many cooks in the kitchen on a new healthcare law could fail. once the legislations finisher will head to markup session in the energy and commerce and ways and means committee. >> i think this is a meeting in the middle. this is what typ...

The question is if you add replacement to it, and if replacement is obamacare light, there is no consensus on it. what the house leadership is going to put forward if they are not careful will not have the votes to pass, so we are trying to tell them in advance to save the embarrassment, lets negotiate now with conservatives, and lets try to have something that conservatives can vote for. i have a way to do that. separate the bills. have a complete repeal by itself and have replacement by itself...

Approximately how many bills do you have that could be regarded as replacement bills or ways to improve the health insurance system in our health care? >> weve had one large term bill since march or early 2009, beyond that, tens of pieces of legislation on health care. >> its been insinuated that america is this horrible, rotten place, that we dont have compassion, by extension physicians dont. >> you worked as a physician, did you always agree as part of your engagement with the hospital to tre...

You have that would be regarded as replacement bills or ways to improve the health insurance system in our health care? >> weve had one large-term bill since march or early 2009, and then beyond that, tens of pieces of legislation to address the health care issue. >> its also been insinuated that america is this horrible, rotten place, that we dont have compassion, and i guess by extension, the physicians dont. as you worked as an emergency room physician or as he worked as a physician, did you ...

Have a replacement bill or what is more likely to be a series of replacement bills to deal with the problems over a period of weeks or months and if the implementation of those bills are phased out over a period of months or even years as obamacare itself was. but what i dont think we should do is kick the can down the road a year or two years before we tell the american people and the health care markets what were going to do to solve some of the problems that obamacare has made worse. >> you h...

And now republicans finally own the place and yet there is no bill to pull forward. as best i can understand from you, this could be a while before you think they should repeal where you have the confidence theyll be able to replace at the same time. >> well, peter, let me push back a little bit. there are repeal bills, i mean replacement bills out there that actually could be put in place. i think its important for us to make a decision and to find what thats going to be and so thats part of wh...

Introduced solid replacement bills. thats one of the thing hes going to lead the charge on. miss seema verma -- >> hold on. i dont want to move away from price yet. >> this is part of our team thats going to come in and repeal and replace this is. you saw the study that came out this morning, the gallup poll. 80% of americans think we should get rid of or make changes to obamacare. >> right, but you have to forgive some public sentiment on something thats been so misleading. the discussion about...