The Fix Analysis How well does Jimmy Kimmel understand the GOP health-care bill?

[Stonepounder]

http://wapo.st/2xQA2bF

Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel inserted himself into the health-care debate in May by telling a harrowing story of the birth of his son, Billy, who was born with a congenital heart defect and required a lot of expensive, attentive medical care to stay alive.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) latched onto the moment to promote his own version of Obamacare repeal: “Does it pass the Jimmy Kimmel test?” he asked. He went on Kimmel's show. They talked about their shared values of providing people health care even if they can't afford it.

Now Cassidy's bill has a shot — however slim — at becoming law in the next week and a half. And Kimmel thinks it sucks and he got burned by Cassidy. “This guy, Bill Cassidy, just lied right to my face,” Kimmel said on his show Tuesday.

“I'm sorry he does not understand,” Cassidy retorted on CNN on Wednesday, arguing that in many states, he thinks insurance will become more affordable than Obamacare under his plan. It turns out Kimmel understands the bill's impact better than its authors do. Here are five of Kimmel's claims matched up to with what we know about the bill.

The article goes on to pretty much rip the Cassidy-Graham bill and picks it apart point by point. Well worth the read.

[underpants]

1. Thanks WaPo for fact checking a late night talk show host

I'm out of free WaPo articles for the month.

[Stonepounder]

2. Dang. I would have posted the whole thing, but didn't want to run afoul of

'fair use'. I didn't realize they had put their paywall back up. They had it down for a while during Harvey and Irma.

[underpants]

4. No prob

I always go over.

[Gothmog]

3. Here are Kimmel's comments

Link to tweet