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Replacement plan. what do you think of that? >> well, you know, first of all, president-elect trump has said he does not want to repeal it unless theres something to replace it or repair it with. this is my stance. im not going to vote to repeal it. if im one democrat, theyre going to need eight democrats when they want to replace it. so we ought to work together now. i would encourage my friends on the republican side not to repeal it. lets look at repairing and fixing. we know we have a lot of...

>> martha: president-elect trump wanted by january 27, that is what he asked for. will he have it? >> congress better put their big boy pants on. these republicans. one thing about donald trump, he is going to drive congress, he wants to see a plan. at the same time, you are going to see price and donald trump have their own ideas, work together with congress to make sure that they move forward. we know something about congress. mo knows this as well. congress moves very slowly. >> martha: its l...

American people and in a very real sense, the american people made a decision on obamacare in this last election. people know that its failed. remember when obamacare was passed, i was working in the congress at the time. we were told that the cost of health insurance was going to go down, and the reality is that the exact opposite has happened. and the president-elect and i believe and weve assembled a team, doctor price is a part of those discussions as well, that we believe is going to put to...

Where the states know best how to care for in the best way their medicaid population. >> you look forward to working with you. >> likewise. >> thank you, mr. chairman. representative price. i hope you can understand our frustration around trying to divine the nature of this replacement plan. we hear you and president trump praise all of these aspects of the affordable care act and lay out goals that sound eerily familiar to what weve been living with for the last six years. youve said that you d...

Forward his own replacement plan. but its obviously not necessarily the final plan that the president-elect is going to endorse once he becomes president of the united states. he wants to repeal and replace almost, he says, simultaneously. >> although theres been a lot of questions about that. when i talked to speaker ryan last week, he said the process, he hoped, would be simultaneously. sometimes even within the same bill, repealing with one thing and replacing with another. but the devil is i...

Visited and thank you for your visit, but we talked about the opiod epidemic. one of the significant issues is treatment needed to overcome an addiction. if the affordable care act is repealed, there will no longer be a mandate for substance abuse treatment being covered. is that something you agree with? >> look, the opiod epidemic is rampant and is harming families and communities all across this nation. >> would you assure that treatment would be substance abuse treatment would be covered und...

More people having coverage. sick people wont face discrimination. young adults will get to stay on their plans until age 26. yet, we dont get any specifics as to how that is going to occur. it seems as if you and the president-elect want to do everything the affordable care act does, but just do it in a totally different way. and so im going to kind of give up on trying to get at the specifics of this secret replacement plan, and maybe ask you about metrics, about how we will measure whether wh...

Repeatedly promised a simultaneous replacement plan. at least six senate republicans have openly expressed skepticism or opposition about repealing a law without a replacement ready to go. just today, for instance, "time" magazine reported senator susan collins of maine has told her republican colleagues she can not support the repeal without a replacement. again, that margin in the senate is just three votes. so now it looks like republicans will need to have a replacement plan ready to impleme...

Made a decision on obamacare in this last election. people know that its failed. remember when obamacare was passed, i was working in the congress at the time. we were told that the cost of health insurance was going to go down, and the reality is that the exact opposite has happened. and the president-elect and i believe and weve assembled a team, doctor price is a part of those discussions as well, that we believe is going to put together a replacement plan that we hope gets bipartisan support...

That, we are covering it, it is not a talking point. it was just addressed in the hearing that tom price does not want to cover the pill, for example, which helps women with endometriosis for example. these are big issues that need to be covered. >> he never said he does not want to cover the pill. >> jenna: here -- here in lies where we are in this moment which is looking for specifics t what a replacement plan would really look like and really not having that specifics in black and white quite...