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Here’s what Obama 'loves' about Trump’s VP pick, Mike Pence
Gov. Mike Pence is among a dozen or so Republican governors who have participated in Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion — a decision that has earned him praise from liberals and derision from conservatives.
Amid reports that Trump had likely settled on the Indiana governor as his vice presidential pick, the White House used the moment to praise Pence for his work on Obamacare.
Trump has made the electoral map a lot safer for Republicans by picking Pence, a politician respected for his conservative bona fides in most policy areas. Now, with the party establishment slowly falling in line, they’ll be dusting off their pet policy positions — including repealing Obamacare. And while Trump has been all over the map on health care reform from the sidelines, Pence’s home state of Indiana has been the site of one of Obamacare’s fiercest policy battles.
Pence did expand Medicaid through the health care law, but he attempted to do it on his own terms. He extracted additional flexibilities from the Obama administration in how he wants to run the program, molding it to be a more conservative version of the safety net.
http://www.vox.com/2016/7/15/12190470/mike-pence-medicaid-obamacare
