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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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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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