GOP/HEALTHCARE/MIKE PENCE: “While Senate Republicans wrangled behind closed doors over health care Wednesday [7-12-17], Vice President Mike Pence traveled to Kentucky, one of the states with the most at stake as the GOP pushes to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.
Pence planned to join Republican Gov. Matt Bevin in Lexington for a meeting with Kentuckians who say they have been hurt by the Affordable Care Act.
Kentucky Republicans say the law is on a downward spiral and have welcomed Pence’s visit as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell tries to orchestrate its overhaul.
But former Gov. Steve Beshear said the event is another example of President Donald Trump’s administration ‘choosing to put politics over people.’
Beshear, a Democrat, has been among the biggest advocates for Obama’s law, which he used to expand health care coverage to many more Kentuckians and push the state’s uninsured rates to historic lows.”
-Bruce Schreiner, “Pence pushes repeal in state where health coverage soared,” The Washington Post online, July 12, 2017 01:44pm