CHUCK TODD: What will you make — what is number one, in your mind, that you’ve got to, that you know — that is going to be the hardest thing to do, so you’re going to do it early? Health care was Obama’s. What is yours?

KLOBUCHAR: Bringing down health-care costs with some much-needed changes to the Affordable Care Act. And that would be, first of all, pharmaceutical prices. I have been on this for over a decade. And neither during Democratic or Republican administrations, have we had any significant votes in this Congress. Pharma may think they own Washington. They don’t own me. And this means everything from unleashing the power of 43 million seniors to negotiate lower prices under Medicare, bringing in less expensive drugs from Canada, stopping the pay-for-delay practice, a bill that I have with Senator Grassley. … I believe in bringing out universal healthcare to all Americans. And we’re not there yet. And the fastest way —

TODD: But you want to use the, but you want to use the structure of Obamacare?

KLOBUCHAR: Yes, I do. And the fastest way you get there is with a public option. You can do that with Medicaid. You can do it with Medicare. I would get that done in the first year as president. There’s no reason we can’t do that, as well as immediately using reinsurance and cost sharing, things that would really help here in Iowa, where they’ve had some major issues with their premiums.

TODD: What do you tell the folks that say, “No, no, no, no, no, no. You know, stop that. Obamacare isn’t the answer. Go to Medicare-for-all”? What do you tell those folks?

KLOBUCHAR: I tell them that we have had some major successes with the Affordable Care Act. We have made sure kids get on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26. We have stopped people from being thrown off their insurance for preexisting conditions.