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Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Louisville, Ky., this weekend as part of the Trump administration's publicity blitz for its newly unveiled Obamacare replacement bill, a White House official told the Washington Examiner on Thursday.

Pence will meet with Gov. Matt Bevin, a steadfast critic of the sweeping healthcare law that congressional Republicans have vowed to repeal and replace. Bevin was one of several GOP governors who met with Trump and Pence last week to discuss healthcare and Medicaid reform.

But while Bevin appears to approve of the Trump-backed replacement bill put forward this week, another politician from Kentucky has been particularly critical of the legislation.

"I don't think it makes any sense and I think [House Speaker Paul Ryan] is trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the president," Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told Breitbart News on Wednesday.

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Paul has said the bill doesn't go far enough in dismantling the healthcare law by eliminating government-mandated insurance.

"Obamacare Lite, Paul Ryan's plan, just changes it so you have to pay a penalty to the insurance companies," he said. "I consider that to still be a mandate that isn't consistent with those of us who want less government involvement."

Pence's visit to Paul's backyard will come days after he and the president sat down with conservative groups who have expressed major concerns over the replacement bill and the process by which it was drafted.

"Nobody reached out to us to find out what we thought about this beforehand," a source who attended the meeting with Trump and Pence told the Washington Examiner.

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Rand Paul: House GOP health care plan is 'Obamacare lite,' 'will not pass' Washington Times Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky on Tuesday said the House GOP's new health care plan will not pass and said a provision hiking premiums for people who go without insurance for a certain period of time is likely unconstitutional. The House bill that's ... Sen. Rand Paul Refuses to Buckle to WH 'Charm Offensive'Newsmax Rand Paul warns the Republican health care proposal 'will not pass'The Week Magazine Trump Tweets: He's Sure Rand Paul Will Come Along With Obamacare-LiteThe Libertarian Republic Malay Mail Online all 65 news articles »

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President Trump on Tuesday evening expressed confidence that Sen. Rand PaulRand PaulRight targets Ryan not Trump on ObamaCare plan Overnight Healthcare: Top conservative pushes for Medicaid changes in ObamaCare bill The Hill's 12:30 Report MORE (R-Ky.) would "come along" with the House GOP plan to repeal and replace ObamaCare.

"I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!" Trump tweeted.

I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster!

"We're very, very united on repeal, not so much on replace, and so I think the real problem is adding replacement to the repeal bill," he said. "Ithink the repeal bill probably wont pass unless we take replacement off of it."

Paul, who has been an outspoken critic of the healthcare proposal rollout,tweeted Tuesday morning that the House GOP plan wouldn't pass because it is too similar to the existing healthcare law.

"The House leadership plan is Obamacare Lite. It will not pass. Conservatives are not going to take it, Paul tweeted.

Paul and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio)saidTuesday they plan to introduce their own ObamaCare repeal plan. They said they will introduce a clean bill to repeal ObamaCare, as Congress did in 2015.

Conservatives lawmakers argue that they should vote on repeal as a separate measure from replacement, and then should debate how to replace former President Obama's signature healthcare legislation.

The lawmakers are opposed to several parts of the House GOP leadership's proposal, called the American Health Care Act, including a refundable tax credit to help people buy insurance that they dub a "new entitlement."

The Trump administration on Tuesday formally backed the House GOP's plan, with Trump himself meeting with House lawmakers at the White House and urging support for the proposal.

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Sen. Rand Paul criticizes the House Republican health care reform plan as Obamacare light during a television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 7, 2017. (Photo: AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

WASHINGTON Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., told reporters Tuesday that he objected to what he called the Obamacare-lite bill unveiled by House leadership Monday and believes that Congress should move to fully repeal the Affordable Care Act before replacing it.

Theres one thing thats united Republicans in 2010 when we won the House, in 2014 when we won the Senate and in 2016 when we won the White House that is complete repeal. Clean repeal, Paul said.

Paul and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, are introducing companion bills in the House and Senate on Tuesday that fully repeal Obamacare. The move appears to be a step back for Republicans, who have been arguing since President Trumps victory about how best to replace the Affordable Care Act.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives conservative Freedom Caucus, who joined Paul at the press conference, criticized the House leadership bill that would repeal and replace Obamacare for keeping much of Obamacares Medicaid expansion. They were also critical of the bill forcreating tax credits for people who make less than $75,000 to help them buy health insurance, which they refer to as a new entitlement program.

Earlier this year, Paul said he believed that repeal and replace should happen simultaneously. The senator said he has not changed his opinion on that but admitted that he and other Republican members have been able to agree only on the fact that the law should be repealed not on how to provide health care.

We have to admit we are divided on replacement, Paul said.

Paul said he believes the repeal and replace bills should be separate.

How about using the bill we all supported and then replace it with something we actually believe will lower health care costs, said Jordan.

Trump, meanwhile, told reporters Tuesday that he believed the Obamacare replacement bill would pass very quickly. Trump has thrown his support behind the House bill while also declaring it now open to review and negotiation.

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Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky said Wednesday the White House is in the midst of a charm offensive to try to cajole wary conservatives who have criticized the House GOPs health care plan.

I think the White House, the administration, and the president understand that theres enough conservatives that they cant pass Obamacare lite, Mr. Paul said on MSNBCs Morning Joe.

Thats why this week, whats going on behind the scenes is a charm offensive, he said.

Every conservative thats come out publicly opposed to this has been called by the White House and is being cajoled and wooed by the White House to give in, Mr. Paul said.

If we stick together, we will have a force and a negotiation, and we will talk about clean repeal versus replacement, he said. I dont think they have the numbers to pass this at this point.

Mr. Trump had indicated Tuesday he was confident Mr. Paul would come along.

I feel sure that my friend @RandPaul will come along with the new and great health care program because he knows Obamacare is a disaster! the president tweeted Tuesday evening.

Mr. Paul and other conservatives say the House GOP plan unveiled Monday doesnt go far enough in completely repealing Obamacare. Proponents of the House plan say its one step in a multipart process to ultimately unwind the law.

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