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Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., slammed House Republicans' healthcare bill in an interview with Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight" Thursday, vowing the measure would be "dead on arrival" in the Senate.

"It keeps the ObamaCare taxes for a year," Paul told host Ed Henry. "Then [it] keeps the Cadillac tax forever; [it] keeps the ObamaCare subsidies, but renames them tax credits; [it] keeps the individual mandate, but you dont pay the government the penalty, youve got to pay the insurance company ... That's the very definition of ObamaCare Lite."

Paul, a licensed opthamologist, touted his own health care plan, which he said was based on ideas sketched out by current Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price.

"What you replace it with are market reforms," Paul said. "You expand health savings accounts, and then you expand health care associations, these associations like co-ops or buying pools."

When Henry questioned Paul over whether his plan would get the necessary 60 votes in the Senate, Paul answered, "I can't be blamed if somebody won't vote for something."

Paul called for ObamaCare to be repealed before any work begins on a replacement, telling Henry that House Republicans "might as well just start over ... Were going to have to separate repeal from replace."

You wont meet anybody who dislikes ObamaCare more than me," Paul said. "I have lived ObamaCare. It is a disaster. I have voted to repeal it and I will vote again, but I will not vote for ObamaCare Lite stuck on the repeal bill."

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Well continue our discussion of House Speaker Paul Ryans Obamacare replacement bill, which is coming under intense criticism from all quarters and has been dubbed Ryancare or Obamacare-Lite by some critics.

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Well hear from Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), who has been leading the charge against Obamacare-Lite.

Mississippi state senator Chris McDaniel will discuss his possible senate run in 2018, spurred on by the hapless way the Republican establishment is handling the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.

Wisconsin businessman and former Ryan challenger Paul Nehlen will weigh in on Speaker Ryans healthcare bill.

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Fox News Ed Henry, subbing in for Tucker Carlson tonight, questioned Senator Rand Paul about the binary choice Speaker Paul Ryan has offered fellow Republicans on the American Health Care Act.

Paul is one of the Republicans insisting they need to go back to the drawing board on Obamacare repeal. He told Henry that the binary choice rhetoric is basically take it or leave it, and so we are withholding our vote to send a message.

Henry said, When you say Look, its not a binary choice, you dont have my vote, Mr. Speaker, you might imperil the Trump presidency.

He asked Paul, What if this all comes crashing down?

Paul insisted that therearent many people who dislike Obamacare more than he does, but said, We have to separate repeal from replacement or the deal doesnt get done.

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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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