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Of things. >> what about the partisan nature of all this? because there are a lot of democrats who say republicans are just trying to bump 20 million people from health care. is that a fair characterization? >> whether they're trying to or not, they seem committed to do it. so i think it's fair to look at the consequences of the actions. because what they're repealing -- when they vote to repeal, they repeal the prohibition on denying a person health care coverage because they have diabetes or they have cancer. they're repealing the requirement that you can't get kicked off your health care --...

Secretary's approved, almost simultaneously, shortly thereafter, a plan. it will be repeal and replace. it will be various segments, you understand, but will most likely be on the same day or the same week, but probably the same day, could be the same hour. >> donald trump there vowing to repeal and replace obamacare, but not exactly offering critical specifics. meanwhile, more than 40 rallies slated from maine to honolulu today to save health care, supported by bernie sanders and many members of congress. the day of action looks to preserve the affordable care act and planned parenthood fundi...

Replacing it with puts a lot of people at real risk. >> but do you believe obamacare itself has some areas to be improved, there are fixes to be done? if so, what are they, and can those be achieved? >> it clearly could be improved, but you don't throw it away. obviously, changing the market structure. part of the problem we see in some areas of the country is a lack of competition. we've been talking about ways to do that. one of the ways is to allow plans to cross state lines so that more plans can compete for those customers. that would drive down cost. allowing the federal government, for ...

Going to have to appear to put up a fight, to say united and make sure that a lot of the good pieces of obamacare remain. the questions -- now what's interesting is you're seeing republicans realize that they can't rip the rug out from underneath the american people and take away obamacare right away, and a $9 billion subsidy that they at one time fought against, went to court against, they now are saying they may have to keep this $9 billion subsidy for obamacare, which helps low-income people because they realize that there needs to be a very graceful and easy handover of the affordable care...

We in before the ac weinke passed, which was a terrible time -- we have to remind ourselves of that. if you had an illness, you couldn't get health care. you couldn't get health insurance before the affordable care act. 20 million people have been covered since at fordable care act was passed. >> right. >> those benefits will all be lost. >> i want to play a clip from a new ad by a conservative advocacy group linked to house gop leadership. here's that. >> imagine a new path forward, health insurance that provides more choices and better care at lower costs. house republicans have a plan to ge...