Vice President Mike Pence will travel to Lexington, Ky., Wednesday to speak with local business owners about the need for repealing and replacing Obamacare, the White House announced Tuesday.
Pence’s visit to the Horse Capital of the World will include a stop in Bryant’s Rent-All, located on the western side of downtown Lexington. Pence will meet with small business owners and local job creators “about the need to repeal and replace Obamacare,” the White House said.
Gov. Matt Bevin, R-Ky.; Rep. Andy Barr, R-Ky.; and Rep. Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., will join Pence and take part in a listening session with local business leaders and employees negatively affected by Obamacare. Pence will finish the event with a speech shortly after 4 p.m. EST Wednesday.
Pence’s return to the Bluegrass State comes as the White House has urged Congress to replace, or at least repeal, the Affordable Care Act.
Kentucky’s uninsured rate dropped from 20.4 percent in 2013 to 7.8 percent last year, partly due to the state’s Medicaid expansion.
Pence and President Trump have both visited Louisville in recent months as part of the administration’s strategy to sway Kentucky voters — who caucused for Trump last spring — to support the uprooting of Obamacare, whose future Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentuckian, controls.
