julie rovner with us. if you have a question, it's (202) 748-8000 if you live in the central or eastern time zones, (202) 748-8001 for mountain or pacific time zones. you can go on the website to see her story, and her colleagues asking questions -- you were asking questions of previous hhs secretaries about what that job is like earlier. three who spilled the beans talked to you. what did they say? guest: one was javier becerra. we had javier becerra, and alex azar, the most recent hhs secretary under president trump. even though they were from different parties, what they said was very similar. it is a big job, you are overseeing a budget of trillions of dollars, and there is a lot of moving parts. but it was interesting to see how they tried to zero in on small things that they could get changed. hhs is a gigantic battleship. it's very hard to turn it, but you might be able to tinker with some of the things that are on deck. that's what the hhs secretary tries to do. host: what is their role during this

julie rovner with us.u have a question, it's (202) 748-8000 if you live in the central or eastern time zones, (202) 748-8001 for mountain or pacific time zones. you can go on the website to see her story, and her colleagues asking questions -- you were asking questions of previous hhs secretaries about what that job is like earlier. three who spilled the beans talked to you. what did they say? guest: one was javier becerra. we had javier becerra, and alex azar, the most recent hhs secretary under president trump. even though they were from different parties, what they said was very similar. it is a big job, you are overseeing a budget of trillions of dollars, and there is a lot of moving parts. but it was interesting to see how they tried to zero in on small things that they could get changed. hhs is a gigantic battleship. it's very hard to turn it, but you might be able to tinker with some of the things that are on deck. that's what the hhs secretary tries to do. host: what is their role during this appro

julie rovner here of kff health news to help us break it all down. a good time for your calls if you have questions on federal health care policy, republicans, so i was putting the light regionally. easter central time zones it is 202-748-8000 here if you're in a mountain or specific time zones 202-748-8001. she is with us until the end of the program the next half hour this morning chocolate and start calling in. for what the health view assuming that it picked up that podcast at what is going to fight if they had over there? >> guest: i have basically many about a dozen and a half female health reporters from around d.c., in some cases around the country and we get together every thursday and talk about the week's weeks hy news. it's fine and it is a good listener. >> host: what are you going to be talked about this week? >> guest: a lot of what we're talking about, or congress to answer many of these health issues that either need to get done or in some cases congress would like for them to get done spiritually to talk about this. there's a lot of

host: julie rovner back at our desk,