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Did you enjoy meeting me? >> i did, i did. i enjoyed our discussion about her gray hair. >> dr. price, what is the leading cause of preventable death in the united states? >> i'll defer to you, you've obviously got it on the page in front of you. >> i actually knew this before i put it on the page. it's smoking. >> that hits home. i lost my dad, who was a lucky strike's smoker from world war ii, to emphysema. he prided himself on the fact that he never smoked a cigarette with a filter for years and years, and it was an incredible tragedy. >> i lost my dad, too. as a physician you may know, i g...

All ought to be a voluntary choice, but they ought to have the choice to be able to select them. >> one of the things you have had different legislation on and i'm a big supporter of his allowing individuals to join together in groups to buy insurance. do you think this has a possibility of what senator alexander talked about the millions of people in the individual market, i have great sympathy for that. i was a small physician with four employees, and if one employee were to get sick it could be devastating not only to them, but also to the economics of keeping them employed. but letting us ...

The policies that i've promoted and will continue to promote our absolutely incorrect. we all share a concern for the american people in how we best nick certain that they have access to the highest quality care that the world knows. and so i hope, and i understand why he's doing it, this is a political activity, i understand that. but i hope that we are able to work together if i'm given the privilege of leading and serving as the secretary of health and human services, to truly solve these difficult challenges that we have in our nation. >> congressman price, isn't it true that by the date o...

President-elect to join us in legislation we are working on, which number one will allow medicare to negotiate prices with the drug companies and lower prices, and number two, allow the american people to bring in less expensive medicine from canada and other countries, is that something you will work with us on? >> the issue of drug pricing and drug costs is one of great concern to all americans. i think it's important to appreciate that a couple of areas we have had significant success, whether it's in the generic area where costs are significantly less and they have bank, -- >> you are awar...

About the zimmer biomet, your broker, you say, you did know this, bought it on march 17th, 2016. you did introduce a bill later, a week later, on march 23rd, 2016. you say that you did not know then. that you had this stock. it was to delay a federal rule that would have reduce the profitability of the companies to delay a rule that would hurt the company. what i don't understand is once you found out that your broker bought it, you kept the stock. you purchased this 50,000 to $100,000 worth of stock in a biomedical company called innate immuno. the single largest purchase in the past three ye...