Vice President Mike Pence visited a small business in Louisville on March 11 to make the Trump administration's case for a health care overhaul. During his speech, the vice president again singled out the governor for praise — as well as ribbing him about their states’ college basketball rivalry (Pence is from Indiana). Pence’s motorcade passed a group of protesters chanting, “Save our care.”Under Obama’s health plan, governors were given the option to expand Medicaid — which now covers about 10 million people in 31 states and the District — in their home states. He called Obama’s health plan a “catastrophe” and a “disaster” that needs to be repealed and replaced. Pence, who was also recently deployed to Ohio and Wisconsin to help push the Republican health plan, sought to cast health care as a yet another bold action the administration has taken early in its term.

Source: Washington Post March 11, 2017 21:00 UTC