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Senate. but some key aspects of the law cannot be repealed through the budget process. including prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to those with pre-existing conditions. and the mandate requiring people to purchase health insurance. conservatives determined to scrap the law are already warning of a revolt if president-elect donald trump accepts anything short of a full repeal. >> if he pursues amending obamacare, how would you respond? >> i'm not going to agree with that. >> reporter: the process to replace obamacare will be even tougher because republicans will need to overcome a sen...

Insurance? are you going to just kick them off and suddenly they don't have health insurance? >> reporter: next month the republicans will immediately try to pass a budget, a process that will allow them to repeal much of obamacare, including subsidies to buy health insurance and an expansion of medicaid, all on a party-line vote in the senate. but some key aspects of the law cannot be repealed through the budget process, including prohibiting insurers from denying coverage to those with preexisting conditions and the mandate requiring people to purchase health insurance. conservatives determi...

Candidates in the race who didn't win. so i think we're going to be able to work very well with him. >> reporter: if he pursues just amending obamacare, how would you respond? >> i'm not going to agree with that, but i think we will work with the president and i think that's the whole point of this. >> reporter: so then that issue of obamacare, so significant, erin, because as we know, donald trump's signaling that he's willing to keep some aspects of obamacare in law, but if he does not go full force and try to pull out the law, root and branch, he's going to have a fight on his hand among co...

Frankly, just wait and see? a speech won't work. is the proof in the pudding and wait and see what happens? >> it's all about waiting and see what happens. when i have been talking to trump supporters who are excited about him, they are saying that one of his supporters called him a wild card. even the people who supported him don't actually know what they were supporting. they think they know what law and order is. they think they know what being making america great is. if he doesn't build a wall and he is talking about building a fence, if he is talking about amending obamacare and not repe...