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Watch This Kid Demand Mike Pence Apologize After Accidentally Hitting Him in the Face - New York Magazine

May 10, 2017, 9:22 a.m.

Vice President Mike Pence toldreporters at the Capitol that he did not think an independent prosecutor was necessary to investigate potential collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government.

The facts that are in public today are very clear," Pence said in an interview televised by CNN.

"The former director of DNI has said there is no evidence of collusion, Pence added, though that misstatedwhat James Clapper, former director of national intelligence, has testified.

Pence defended Comey's ouster against accusations that it was designed to halt the Russia investigation, repeatedly praising Trump's "decisiveaction" and leadership.

"The president made the right decision at the right time, Pence said.

Pence repeated the White House talking point that the decision was based on the recommendation of Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein. He said Trump has begun evaluating potential replacements.

The simple fact is Director Comey had lost the support of the American people, Pence said.

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Vice President Mike Pence on Comey firing: 'The president made the right decision at the right time' - Los Angeles Times

Vice President Mike Pence with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services chief Seema Verma, who helped Pence and other Republican governors craft proposals to restrict Medicaid benefits before joining the administration. CREDIT: AP Photo/Andrew Harnik

When you make something cost more, fewer people can afford it. Your remedial mathematics lesson for this week is sponsored by the state of Indiana, where a popular conservative experiment with making poor people pay for Medicaid is indeed severely depressing access to health care.

The states version of Medicaid expansion under Obamacare is often touted as a model for conservative politicians who are unwilling to broaden eligibility for the health insurance program unless they get permission to tack on additional rules and costs.

But the plan, enacted by then-Gov. Mike Pence and largely written by President Donald Trumps current chief Medicaid and Medicare official Seema Verma, is having precisely the grim results predicted by health care policy experts before it became law in 2015.

While Pences plan theoretically extended Medicaid coverage to some 590,000 individual residents so far, the majority of them have seen their coverage cut back or canceled according to a new report on the plans outcomes. While just 13,550 people were kicked off the Medicaid roles in that time, another 287,000 got knocked down into a reduced service category that does not include vision or dental coverage. More than 46,000 never enrolled to begin with.

Why is Pences plan delivering so much less actual insurance coverage to so many fewer actual human beings than it was supposed to? The Vice President felt it was important that people with incomes below 139 percent of the federal poverty level have skin in the game for their health care. He imposed premiums on this economically vulnerable population, a policy directly at odds with the core purpose of the Medicaid program as it has existed for decades.

Turns out these poor families cant afford to pay insurance premiums, even on the income-based sliding scale from $1 to $100 per month established in Pences bill. A full 324,840 people failed to make at least one of these payments in the relevant period, causing most of them to lose access to affordable dentistry and eye careand knocking several thousand off of the insurance rolls entirely.

Such high levels of drag on the Medicaid enrollment expansion in Indiana undermine many of the positive knock-on effects that come from insuring people who cannot afford their own insurance. Again, this was a predictable outcome. Policy analysts have persistently warned that turning the nations insurance for people who cant afford it program into a insurance for people who can kinda afford it program would drastically reduce its reach, and thus its benefits to all members of the countrys shared economic future.

The new Indiana figures come in as Verma is positioned to approve or disapprove all states proposals for tinkering with Medicaid rules. Verma has recused herself from the governments decisionmaking on state waiver proposals that she helped craft before entering Trumps administration, including Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevins (R) quixotic plan to use Medicaid as a social engineering program in which enrollees earn or lose loyalty rewards from the state based on their behavior.

But she has also encouraged all states to impose Pence-style premiums for Medicaid. One of Vermas first official acts in office was to draft a letter, sent to state leaders hours after she was sworn in according to the Washington Post, urging states to alter the insurance program for the nations poor by imposing insurance premiums, charging them for part of emergency room bills and prodding them to get jobs. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price co-wrote the letter endorsing the policy mechanisms that have cost hundreds of thousands access to full coverage in Indiana.

Conservatives often argue they did not start this war, that Obamacares expansion of Medicaid access to certain populations living slightly above the federal poverty line was the opening shot. States should have authority to tweak the program for this new category of beneficiaries, they say. Such families should bear some share of the costs of their care, the argument goes, and should have to do more to demonstrate they are worthy of societys help.

But as the House GOPs health care overhaul measure makes clear, the conservative movement would in fact like to impose such radical changes to the DNA of Medicaid for all of its recipients. That bill slashes funding to the program by almost a trillion dollars.

Nearly one in six insured Americans get their coverage through Medicaid. Such vast funding cuts to a program so central to the delicate overall architecture of the U.S. health care business are likely to set off an earthquake for all its recipientsand one that could quickly spill over into health care service options and pricing realities for other Americans.

Price has claimed that zero people will lose health insurance coverage despite the cuts, which violate one of Trumps own campaign promises. When pressed similarly about the cuts, Trumps budget director Mick Mulvaney promised that everybody will have coverage thats better than what they had under Obamacare.

Mulvaney, Price, Verma, GOP congressional leaders, and Trump himself are not only stuck defending vast Medicaid cuts. The bill they are boosting also uses that money taken from a poor peoples program to fund a giant tax break for the richest Americans.

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Mike Pence has already cost thousands of people their Medicaid ... - ThinkProgress

Maureen Groppe and Tony Cook, USA TODAY Published 12:12 p.m. ET May 9, 2017 | Updated 12:45 p.m. ET May 9, 2017

Donald Trump Jr. speaks during the Indiana Republican Party 2017 Spring Dinner Monday, May 8, 2017, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) (Photo: Darron Cummings/Associate Press)

When Eric Trump announced in March he was going to be a dad, the first person to call him was not his own father, but Vice President Pence.

Donald Trump Jr. revealed that detail in a speech Monday to Indiana Republicans at the party's annual dinner, IndyStar reported.

"I had this conversation with (my brother Eric Trump) about a month ago when he announced hes expecting his first child," Donald Trump Jr. said. "He said, 'Don, you know who the first call was?' I go, 'Dad?'He goes,'Nope...It was Mike Pence.'"

Trump said that shows Pences care for others.

Eric Trump, the presidents middle son, announced in March that he and wife Lara Trump are expecting their first child this fall.

Eric and Donald Trump Jr., the eldest, are running the presidents real estate and resort empire.

Trump Jr., executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization, is often an adviser to his father.

Monday, he was the main draw for the Indiana Republican Partys big fundraising dinner.

The sold-out crowd of about 1,000 Indiana Republicans set a fundraising record, Trump told the crowd."Im sorry Im your speaker and you didnt read the fine print that said 'Jr.' at the end of it," he joked.

Trump said he was happy to come to Indiana, which played an important role in his fathers election. Donald Trump effectively ended the GOP nominating contest through his decisive win in Indianas primary.

After the primary, Donald Trump Jr. was among the family members who met with Pence during a July meeting that played a key role in the presidents decision to tap Pence as his running mate.

"If we did happen to steal your governor," he said, "its the least I can do to say, 'Thank you.'"

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Most present were veterans of WWII, the Korean, and Vietnam Wars, and were in Washington, D.C. on honor flight trips. Pence told the crowd that he is the proud father of a U.S. Marine and of his own father who served in the Korean War.

Thanking the group for their service to the country and noting the 72nd anniversary of V-E Day, Pence said:

The sons and daughters of America, and, indeed, all who call themselves free, will remember your names for eternity, until the world stops turning. To all of you who won a victory in World War Two, you have the undying thanks and gratitude of the American people.

He continued speaking of the Honor Flight program and how he sees those gathered. I know, in the truth of it, that you went to war as boys and you became men, and those men won freedom, and we will never, ever forget your service to this nation.God bless you all, Pence said.

The truth is, no matter where you served, every last one of you fought on the frontlines of freedom.And because of that, because of you, freedom endures to this very day, he went on, you are the best of us.And on behalf of your Commander-in-Chief, Im here to say thanks and to salute your service.

Pence spoke of President Trumps commitment to give veterans more than just thanks, mentioning the recent executive order for the VA:

Just over a week ago, President Trump signed an executive order to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs is as efficient, effective, and accountable as any great healthcare provider in America.Were going to give those who served most the best healthcare system in the world.

He then mentioned the signing of the Veterans Choice Act, to give our heroes the choices they deserve for world-class healthcare.

The Vice President also spoke of a $21 billion increase in defense spending included in the recently signed spending bill. He added that for the budget coming for this fall, President Trump has actually proposed one of the largest increases in defense spending since the days of President Ronald Reagan.

Pence spoke of his recent visit to the demilitarized zone of the Korean Peninsula and of looking out over the region where his father and fellow soldiers fought and for which his father received a bronze star. He spoke also of the men that didnt make it home, whomhis father considered heroes more than himself.

theres a burden that those of you that have seen combat bear that Ill never fully understand, but I respect, said Vice President Pence.

He continued:

You see the sacrifices firsthand. Its not statistics, its friends. Its not ranks, its relationships long gone, but voices and faces never forgotten. Its part of the burden that you bear, as those that have served in the uniform of the United States. And its a burden that on behalf of President Donald Trump, Im here to honor today and to pledge to each one of you that those that are wearing the uniform today will never have a better friend in the Oval Office than President Donald Trump.

The Vice President pledged that the Trump Administration would work to ensure that our military personnel have the resources they need to accomplish their mission in their time, to make sure the promises made to veterans are kept, and to never hesitate to honor those who have served in uniform.

Pence was joined by Karen Pence and VA Secretary David Shulkin.

The Vice President shared photos of the event on Twitter:

Pence also tweeted out video of the entire speech:

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