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Disaster and i actually do have a replacement plan, okay. i just read about it this week, its a terrific plan, just great. its called the affordable care act. >> thats the same thing as obamacare. and if you repeal it, 20 million people will lose their health insurance. i mean people could die. >> listen, sweetheart, im about to be president. were all going to die. let me tell you something, ben carson is great. hes going to be the best brain surgeon to ever run the housing department. if he has...

64 times they voted to repeal the affordable care act and they still do not have a replacement. do not repeal the affordable care act and show us the beef, show us the alternative. >> thats a big challenge for republicans going for it. now that they are in control and now that the stage is finally set to repeal obamacare what are they going to replace it with? laura: kristin exactly where did those replacement efforts stand? thats what everyone said no. symantec many republicans are divided over...

Im totally fine paying extra for something i could get for free. there is nothing i can do with an extra $50. said no one ever. file your taxes for free with credit karma tax. next question. >> yes. mr. trump, you and the republicans want to repeal obamacare. but why would you do that without coming up with a replacement plan? >> because obamacare is a disaster and i actually do have a replacement plan, okay? i just read about it this week. it is called the affordable care act. >> thats the sa...

Committee chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz expressing her anger. that as president-elect donald trump is saying hes open to lifting sanctions on russia. telling "the wall street journal," quote, if you get along and somebody is helping us, why would would have sanctions if somebodys doing really great things? >> meanwhile, republicans are already taking steps to dismantle health care. house members voting 227 to 198 with not having a plan to replace it. most of them because that replacement p...

At all. the real question is for republicans, if you say you want to improve it, tell us what youre going to do. reporter: but so far congressional republicans havent really shared those details. theyre still deep internal divisions over how to pay for the republican replacement plan, and whether or not to use it to stop federal payments to planned parenthood. there is a lot that still needs to be hashed out. not a lot of time. the president-elect says he wants it done during his first 100 days ...

And people arent really as excited about repealing it without a clear replacement in mind as some of the republicans are. so the idea is what if we just kind of renamed it trump care, added a couple of amendments to maybe make it cheaper for people and sort of went on with our lives instead of just scrapping it and trying to come up with something new, which republicans havent really coalesced around a clear replacement plan. so thats sort of the idea behind that. and the question is, you know, ...

Have promised constituents some sort of repeal will happen and they have to make good on trying to make that happen, whether it does or doesnt. the other political reality is whats going to ensure that some kind of replacement plan does take its place, and thats fact that even in red states there are lots and lots of people who have gotten insurance either through medicaid expansion or on the exchanges. and you really dont want to go back to your constituents and tell them, you know, you lost yo...

Parenthood? >> there are questions as to me to be answered and democrats argue. >> for more than six years we have been waiting for credible republican health care plan and none has been forthcoming. all you have is smoke and mirrors and the american people are getting ready to get through. >> this week house speaker paul ryan said he and mr. trump arent the same page that they would like to repeal and replace to happen simultaneously within the first 100 days. that means republicans will have t...

Then you had trump saying there was this terrific new plan they would bring forward after his nominee for hhs secretary, tom price, is confirmed. hes talking about one strategy. the folks on the hill are kind of going their own way. theres no consensus on capitol hill for what this replacement plan should look like. frankly this notion that it can be done quickly is almost impossible. health care occupies a hume portion of the u.s. economy. millions of people will be affected. hospitals, doctor,...

Worry about moving too fast. among them congressman charlie dent, with us now from his home state of pennsylvania. youre saying theyre going too fast. you voted no originally for the act, correct? >> correct. i voted against obamacare. there were numerous problems with the law that need to be corrected. its important for republicans to first identify a replacement plan prior to repealing the law. i think thats absolutely essential. there are certain policy considerations we must be aware of. fir...