{"id":92142,"date":"2017-09-21T13:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/cassidy-fires-back-at-kimmel-in-health-bill-feud-jimmy-doesnt-understand.html"},"modified":"2017-09-21T13:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:11:21","slug":"cassidy-fires-back-at-kimmel-in-health-bill-feud-jimmy-doesnt-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/cassidy-fires-back-at-kimmel-in-health-bill-feud-jimmy-doesnt-understand.html","title":{"rendered":"Cassidy fires back at Kimmel in health bill feud: ‘Jimmy doesn’t understand’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cassidy refutes Kimmel’s latest attack on health care bill<\/a><\/h4>\n

Senator responds on ‘Fox Friends’ to latest criticism from late-night host<\/p>\n

Sen. Bill Cassidy fired back Thursday at late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, as their feud over the health care bill the Louisiana Republican senator has co-authored extended into a third day.<\/p>\n

\u201cJimmy doesn\u2019t understand,\u201d Cassidy told \u201cFox Friends.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n

The host of ABC’s \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live,\u201d\u00a0who delivered a memorable monologue in May when he revealed his newborn son\u2019s heart condition<\/a>, first took aim at Cassidy and his bill on Tuesday night. He said Cassidy \u201cwas not very honest\u201d in an earlier appearance on his show.<\/p>\n

Kimmel said Cassidy coined the term, “the Jimmy Kimmel test,” which was summed up by Kimmel as: No family should be denied medical care, emergency or otherwise, because they can\u2019t afford it. They agreed the test would mean no lifetime caps, Kimmel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kimmel claimed, \u201cThis guy, Bill Cassidy, just lied to my face.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

FATE OF OBAMACARE OVERHAUL IN HANDS OF 3 WAVERING SENATORS<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

The host doubled down Wednesday night, again accusing the senator of breaking a vow to oppose plans that allow insurers to turn back people with pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n

But Cassidy said Thursday that his legislation, which he and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced, would \u201cabsolutely\u201d be cheaper and better than ObamaCare.<\/p>\n

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‘He\u2019s only heard from those on the left who are doing their best to preserve ObamaCare.’<\/p>\n

\t\t \t\t\t\t– Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., referring to Jimmy Kimmel<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cJimmy doesn\u2019t understand, not because he\u2019s a talk show host — because we\u2019ve never spoken,\u201d Cassidy said. \u201cHe\u2019s only heard from those on the left who are doing their best to preserve ObamaCare. He\u2019s not heard from me, because we\u2019ve not spoken.\u201d<\/p>\n

The senator has spoken to Kimmel; he appeared on Kimmel\u2019s show back in May. Challenged on that point, Cassidy acknowledged he was on the show but seemed to say that he and the host have not spoken specifically about his latest bill, which he said would give millions to the states to help low-income families get access to insurance and care for pre-existing conditions.<\/p>\n

KIMMEL TAKES ON GOP HEALTH BILL<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Amid the feud, the White House is trying to rally support for the legislation in hopes of a possible Senate vote next week.<\/p>\n


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\u201cThis may well be our last best chance\u201d to pursue health care reform based on \u201cindividual choice\u201d and \u201cstate-based innovation,\u201d Vice President Pence told \u201cFox Friends\u201d on Thursday.<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWe have to recognize that ObamaCare has failed.\u201d<\/p>\n

At its core, the bill would put ObamaCare\u2019s financing for subsidized private health insurance and Medicaid expansion into a giant pot and redistribute it among states according to new formulas.<\/p>\n

States could obtain federal waivers allowing them to modify insurance market safeguards for consumers. This means states could set their own coverage requirements. The bill also would allow insurers to boost prices on people with serious medical conditions, end former President Barack Obama’s mandates that most Americans buy insurance and that companies offer coverage to workers, and cut and reshape Medicaid.<\/p>\n

The bill’s full impacts are difficult to predict because the Congressional Budget Office has not had time to assess it.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

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