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President Donald Trump and House Republican leaders just finished their victory lap over the House passing a sweeping health care bill, but they might want to hold their horses until the legislation passes the Senate.

On "Your World" today, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) acknowledged that the House Freedom Caucus made the bill "less bad" before it was passed, but he said it has a ways to go.

He explained that this will be the first time Republicans have put their "stamp of approval" on a program where taxpayer money will be paid to insurance companies.

"I really frankly am not too excited about subsidizing the profit of insurance companies," Paul said, noting that their profits already went from $6 billion to $15 billion annually under ObamaCare.

"There's about $300 or $400 billion in this bill for insurance company profit," Paul said. "It boggles my mind how that became a Republican idea."

Neil Cavuto remarked that it sounds like Paul would be a "no" vote right now.

"It's going to take a little bit of work to get me to a 'yes' vote, but I do have an open mind," Paul said. "There's not been a louder voice up here for replacing ObamaCare. I really want to repeal it. I just don't want to replace it with 'ObamaCare lite' or another federal program."

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"Looking at all the smiling faces on the other side of the aisle, I have to ask: are Democrats still the minority party?" Paul asked in an op-edpublishedby Breitbart News.

Paul said people would be "tempted to think the $1 trillion government funding deal is like Christmas morning" for Democrats.

"Youll see it in the news as an 'Omnibus spending bill,' when it should really be called 'the Status Quo Protection Act.' President Hillary Clinton would have been proud of this bill."

Paul took his criticism of the measure further, saying it "tosses out campaign promises as it continues to fund the military industrial complex and the welfare state."

He said the spending bill also does not make the cuts President Trump recommended to multiple government agencies.

"Instead of legislating from crisis to crisis, Republicans should use fiscal deadlines to articulate the principles that supposedly set us apart to boldly defend the conservative philosophy that fueled the countrys growth and can lead it into a new era of prosperity," he wrote.

"Yet, for too long, Republican majorities have backed down from those debates."

The spending measure will spare Trump a damaging government shutdown, but it left out many of his biggest policy requests.

It does not include funding for Trump's proposed border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border or include language stripping federal money from so-called sanctuary cities, both of which the White House demanded at the outset of negotiations.

The White House also backed off a threat to withhold ObamaCare subsidy payments to insurance companies.

Trump was forced to abandon those demands after Democrats in the Senate threatened to block the spending bill if they were included.

The president did secure increased military spending in the 2017 budget deal, breaking with longstanding practice that a boost in Pentagon spending be accompanied by dollar-for-dollar increase in domestic spending.

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On Thursdays broadcast of the Fox News Channels Your World, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) argued the revised American Health Care Act is the first time that Republicans have affirmatively put their stamp of approval on a program where federal money, taxpayer money, is paid to insurance companies. He later characterized subsidizing insurance companies as deplorable.

Rand said the House Freedom Caucus made the bill a lot less bad. He added, But what Im still concerned with is,thisll the first time that Republicans have affirmatively put their stamp of approval on a program where federal money, taxpayer money, is paid to insurance companies. And it boggles my mind how that became a Republican idea.

Rand further stated,Its going to take a little bit of work to get me to a yes vote, but I do have an open mind. I mean, theres not been a louder voice up here for repealing Obamacare. I really want to repeal it. I just dont want to replace with Obamacare-lite, or another federal program. The programs they put in place will be there forever. So the refundable tax credit, which is a subsidy by another name, will be there forever. And this these buying these high-risk pools they want to create, Republicans used to hate the idea. They hated the idea when they were called risk corridors, and there were giving money to insurance companies. They were bailouts, when it was a Democrat idea. Now that its a Republican idea, they keep sweetening it up.

He later argued that the bill offers people who wont get subsidies anymore Santa Claus-lite.

Randalso said, I want everybody in the individual market to be protected against pre-existing conditions, by getting into the group market, and let market forces work. It can work, but the current bill acknowledges that it doesnt work, and then we just subsidize the insurance companies, which I thinkis deplorable.

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WASHINGTON Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul is teaching a class at The George Washington University in D.C. this fall, and some members of the faculty are not pleased.

According to the GW Hatchet, Pauls class, called Dystopian Visions, will focus on dystopian novels and thought written about by authors like Ayn Rand. 33 students will be a part of a unique opportunity to learn from a sitting U.S. senator.

Rand Paul told Vice in a 2013 interview that he wanted to teach a class on the subject, saying, I think dystopian novels are a discussion of politics, and sort of what happens if you let a government accumulate too much power.

While the class quickly filled up with students, including many from the universitys Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) and College Republicans organizations, not everyone is thrilled about the class.

English professor Robert McRuer questioned the conservative senators qualifications, noting how professors in his department must have a Masters or Ph.D. in the subject to teach.

McRuer told the Hatchet: Were trained to do this, so the fact that a celebrity could potentially teach a course that was listed as a novel course is a bit troubling.

Other faculty including Elizabeth Anker, a professor of political science, agreed with McRuer.

Anker noted that the investment in having Rand Paul to brand the University really comes at the expense of the reputation of the school, in terms of the intellectual offerings and the type of education we provide to our students.

Anker also accused Paul of trying to hide a political ideology class by disguising it as a literature course. Another professor said that such a course requires an instructor trained in that aesthetic tradition.

The English department went so far as to release a statement about the class, making it clear that it does not count toward a degree in English. The university also put out a general press release regarding the course.

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During a visit to Louisville on Friday, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul said he doesn't think President Donald Trump's administration wants a military confrontation with North Korea because "millions of people would die."

Trump recently said a "major, major conflict" with North Korea over its nuclear program is possible. In downtown Louisville Friday, Paul told reporters the American government wants a peaceful solution.

"There is no good outcome to a military confrontation. We, of course, have the most dominant military in the world and I think without question ... we would come out, you know, successful in a military campaign," Paul said. "But millions of people would die, so nobody wants that."

Nobody wants a country recklessly saying they plan to develop nuclear weapons and point them at the U.S. either, the Kentucky senator explained.

"(It would) be nice if North Korea understood that launching a nuclear weapon at us would be catastrophic," he said. "It would be the end of North Korea."

Paul discussed North Korea after he wrapped up a roundtable discussion on health care with representatives of Sterling G. Thompson Co., a locally based insurance business.

He suggested Kentucky could play a role in resolving the nation's health care challenges. Patrick O'Connor of the state Department of Insurance attended Friday's discussion and said all options are on the table.

"The end goal is to try to make health insurance more affordable for Kentuckians," O'Connor said.

Regarding the Republican proposal to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Paul said he still dislikes provisions that would give insurance companies "hundreds of billions of dollars."

"Look, I believe in capitalism," he said. "But I don't think the taxpayers should be subsidizing the losses of insurance companies."

On a lighter note, Paul discussed his plans for a "dystopian visions" class that he'll teach at George Washington University this fall.

Paul said his students will tackle "Notes From Underground" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky as well as George Orwell's "1984."

Ayn Rand's "Anthem" will make the booklist for Paul's class, but he indicated that Margaret Atwood's feminist novel "The Handmaid's Tale" which was adapted into a TV show that debuted this week probably won't.

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