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Republicans want to repeal obamacare. why would you do that before coming up with a replacement plan? >> because obamacare is a disaster and actually do have a replacement plan, okay? i just read about this this week. terrific plan. its called the affordable care act. >> thats the same thing as obamacare and if you repeal it, 20 million people will lose health insurance. people could die. >> listen, sweetheart, im about to be president and were all going to die. >> he tweeted this, nbc news is b...

Paying the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs. were paying the highest prices in the world per capita for health care. what are mr. trumps ideas to address those crises? >> reporter: mr. trump has said he would keep the idea of preexisting conditions not, you know, stopping people from getting insurance, that he would keep staying on your plan until youre 26 years old you should your parents health care. what are you worried about would not be in this replacement plan that you ne...

Provisions. you cant do that unless you have another plan in its place. >> some republicans have also expressed concern about rushing to repeal obamacare without replacement plan on the table. the house voted to take the first procedural step on the road to repeal. a chinese state run newspaper slamming donald trump as amateur on the remarks on taiwan. on friday, trump said americas one china policy which officially recognizes beijings government, but not taiwans. he said it is negotiable. ove...

Replacement plan together. >> jon: he is telling them to move quickly, right? the move in congress was to repeal obamacare and then come up with some type of a replacement over the coming years. president-elect has insisted that you have to do it essentially simultaneously. >> donald trump is promising that this will happen pretty quickly. he says that they are finishing up formulating the plan. he wants to go through committees and be in the house in the senate within a month or two. donald tru...

Protection acts we have developed to protect people will disappear. >> reporter: a lot of people in social media are worried about birth control and the coverage for that. >> sure. >> reporter: is that something you could see really holding things up in terms of democrats being able to support anything? >> its one of many, many issues. i mean, for a start, how do you give over $300 billion in tax breaks to the top 2%, which is what the repeal of the affordable care act means, and then provide th...

"today" show gave some specifics about what he thinks would be in a trump-backed replacement plan. take a listen. >> what he said in "the washington post" article, willie, is his goal was to get insurance for everybody, through marketplace solution, through competition, through bringing costs down, negotiating with pharmaceutical companies, allowing competition over state lines. theres a lot of ways we can bring the cost and access to health care way down to ensure people actually get additional...

Health care policy. chuck schumer says you cannot do those things without also taking on the bad parts of obamacare. the things that people do not like. i dont know that that is necessarily true, but give us your take from the white house correspondents position. >> the single biggest stumbling block to a replacement plan for obamacare is how do you keep insurance companies from distinguishing against people with pre-existing conditions once you get rid of the individual mandate? then you have a...

-- a replacement plan, but tom price who was slated to be in charge of it in a term cabinets has not been confirmed yet. if so, he cannot really trot out any details. >> he cannot until he is confirmed. he spent the past few years formulating a replacement plan. it is well-known that he has the details of a plan he has put forward. more market base that is a health savings account so that people can save money pre-taxed on health expenditures. what trump is doing is laying down markers for repub...

That they are the opposition party. for the incoming press secretary says they just want to give the media a bigger space. the press corps is pushing back saying they will fight to stay in the west wing. plus health insurance for everybody. that is a promise from president-elect trump as he pares his obamacare replacement plan. can he deliver? will he faced opposition from him within his own party? for the strength and energy to get back to doing... ...what you love. ensure. always be you. its n...

As republicans move quickly to repeal obamacare, president-elect trump said in an interview with "the washington post" on sunday, he wants to offer a replacement plan that will provide, quote, insurance for everybody. trump did not give specifics on that plan. on sunday supporters of the affordable care act held rallies in opposition to repealing the law all across the country. former presidential candidate senator bernie sanders and the minority leader, chuck schumer, rallied thousands of peopl...