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trump also picking tom price to health and human services secretary sylvia burwell and human services. he will meet mitt romney over dinner tonight as he weighs secretary of state. others are still in the the post chen petroleum had this to say about the president-elect yesterday. >> he basically walked us around the world. showed a great grasp of variety of challenges out there and some of the opportunities as well. very good conversation. we'll see where it goes from here. meghan: so congressman chaffetz, tonight, mitt romney is going on his second one-on-one date with donald trump. going to be the most dramatic rose ceremony ever to find out who will be secretary of state! it is like a the bachelor. rudy giuliani and people in the back saying i would be a better match for him. who do you think ultimately pick? >> any one of those four choices is pretty good but the idea of donald trump getting together with mitt romney, maybe there can be peace in the middle east if those two can get together. i don't know. they're all four good choices. meghan: you don't have a favorite? >> i'm pa

there's a lawsuit going on in which price is suing predecessor sylvia burwell over these payments thenment makes to insurance plans in order to keep insurance affordable for the people who buy coverage through the affordable care act. and if price and the trump administration were to back out of that lawsuit on day one and stop defending it, it would make the obamacare insurance market untenable going forward. that's one big action they could take right off the bat. >> anne mentioned this. price has actually introduced a plan in congress previously to repeal and replace obamacare. it was called the empowering patients' first act. walk us through. what did that do is that sort of an outline for what we might expect? >> it certainly fits the conservative model for replacing obamacare. one is the most conservative way to repeal and replace obamacare. when it comes to a wide range of policies that republicans have talked about for a long time. high-risk pools for the sickest people, softening obamacare requirements that insurance cover people with pre-existing conditions or not charge old

. >> we believe there are things services sector sylvia burwell argues that they are fixable. she points to obamacare successes. 20 million people have health insurance today who didn't before the law was passed. the uninsured rate is now the lowest ever. the administration hopes to enroll nearly 14 million more people. they're aggressively targeting millennials. >> do you expect those insurance providers that have pul o >> you know, i think a number of them will over time. as they look and tee what happens in the market place. >> any promises that any will rejoin the market? >> i don't think any have made those decisions. >> reporter: burwell tells us she thinks that most americans can buy health care for lower than $75 a month. recent immigrants and freelance workers to get them to sign up. gayle. >>> campaigns to realize recreational marijuana are costing millions of dollars. ahead -- how people on both sides of this debate are using the same data to support their argument. >>> and when was the last time somebody invited you to subscribe to their morning podcast? how about

sylvia burwell harangues hhs said monday obamacare is woven into the fabric of the country.eply embedded. that doesn't mean it's working. it doesn't mean it's right. it doesn't mean it's a good program. pulling it away, fixing that can change that dramatically. i can imagine that something trump is not going to want to do. neil: when we talk about the premium back and forth, the deductibles have gone way up. if you have a $5000 to do to blow up $8000 to duck boat along with premiums, you obviously way.and your coverage in the decision because you keep your overall costs down. again, you are such enough for deductibles through the roof. >> this is unaffordable for so many americans. as i told you yesterday we are hearing people taking all kinds of wild things to pay this. they are taking out second mortgages on their homes. there's an investment, improvement to the house. putting our house on the line to pay for health care this year. it makes no sense. you could have to sit down and talk to real people in the program and understand how it's working and how it's really not wo

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aetna is going to be here as well as the obamacare health care czar sylvia burwell.th and human services going to join us this afternoon. that's going to be an interesting afternoon. howard shultz from starbucks also going to be with us this afternoon. we're going to talk time warner/at&t with the ceo of hbo, a unit of time warner. he's going to be sitting with tom rutledge. and then later this afternoon, priscilla chan is going to talk to us about philanthropy. we're going to hear from goldman sachs and bill ackman. and finally a real treat, she has not spoken publicly. sherri redstone in the viacom deal or no deal. she's going to join us later this afternoon. so that is the big day ahead. >> that's unbelievable. i mean, andrew, i wish you were here but the power of "squawk box" that allows you now to be so prominent to be able to bring all those people together is -- right? that is -- congratulations. that's amazing. >> i don't believe he was able to cobble that together in 48 hours after the election. >> is he gone already? >> we just made a couple phone calls aft

that day we met with secretary of health and human services sylvia burwell, and we were able to buildajor momentum resulting in members on both sides of the aisle and both houses of congress coming together and eventually passing my steve gleason act of 2015 which became law on july 30 of last year. senator klobuchar from minnesota and senator king from maine were especiallily supportive and aggressive in getting this bill to the finish line, and i thank them again for their partnership and their support. the act reinstated the long-standing medicare policy to offer immediate relief for patients experiencing incredible difficulty accessing the important life-changing equipment i described. and so that steve gleason act of 2015 was a huge win for thousands of a.l.s. patients and their families and caregivers and others. but we need to make this act permanent. it's of limited duration, as it was passed last year. we need to make it permanent. it's as simple as that. and we need to do it between now and the end of the year. and so i encourage all of my colleagues to come together as we d