Thanks to Jimmy Kimmel, we can see just what a liar Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is. Cassidy talked big to Kimmel:
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, who had delivered an impassioned speech on health care after his own son was born with a heart defect, he would only support a bill that would make sure that a child like Kimmel’s would not lack health coverage. Cassidy later articulated his “Jimmy Kimmel test“: “Would the child born with a congenital heart disease be able to get everything she or he would need in that first year of life … even if they go over a certain amount?”
But his actions, in the form of the bill he’s pushing as the last Republican chance to repeal Obamacare with just 51 votes, don’t match up:
Most important, the bill doesn’t do what Cassidy himself pledged. A middle- or working-class family in Kimmel’s spot, depending on where he or she lived, could find that their policy eliminated birth defects from coverage or charged an astronomical amount to cover a baby born with a life-threatening ailment. It would do that parent no good to point to his state’s boilerplate claim to the feds that it was providing adequate and affordable coverage. Perhaps Cassidy figures no one will figure out the bait-and-switch until it’s too late.
Let your senator know you’ve figured this one out.
We haven’t won the battle to save health care yet. Republicans are STILL pushing to repeal Obamacare. Call your senators at (202) 224-3121 and urge them to vote “NO” on any repeal bill. (After you call, please tell us how it went.)