Discussion: GOP Senator: Our Obamacare Repeal Bill Must 'Pass The Jimmy Kimmel Test'

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“We take care of people with pre-existing conditions. We do it by expanding the risk pool so that those who are sicker, if you will, are in a pool of those who are younger and healthier. It works,” he said. “We have a plan on how to address that. I personally will be working to implement that plan.”

Translation: We're going to screw you like lonely Cletus let loose in the sheep barn.
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Trump: It does pass Jimmy Kimmel Test. Absolutely. It will just cost you millions $$. Everyone is covered under TrumpCare.

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Sounds like he’s looking to enact Obamacare

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So, after the first year of life, the child goes back into the pre-existing condition death bin. Nice. How ‘Pro-life’.

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Pretty much what I thought… The Senate, less willing than their Representative brethren to shoot themselves in the gut, are going to gut the existing bill and completely re-write it, so it has to go back to the house to get voted on again…

I think no one was more furious than Mitch McConnell that the House passed that bill. Now the flaming turd is on his porch, and for what? A whole bunch of “moderate” Repbulican’s stuck their neck out on a bill that won’t pass, cost them tremendous political capitol to jam through, and will likely cost more than a few their seats. Compound that error with a disastrous photo op of the celebration that is practically a pre-made opposition ad, and follow it up with a coming CBO scoring that will excoriate their actions in the exact same way it did last time except maybe worse.

You would think, after the outcry over the last CBO scoring debacle, and the fact that it turned a lot of votes around, that they’d have waited for the next round of scoring before sticking their necks out… but no… the whips did a hell of a job on this one.

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“It’s a really simple biil too,” Sen. Cassidy (R-LA) added. “It’s just one sentence: The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is hereby repealed and re-enacted as The Trumpcare Act of 2017.”

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As Josh said: The iron law of GOP politics is that GOP moderates(1) always cave. Expect the Senate to develop an odious bill that screws over the country. And don’t bet that the dewlapped, chinless, bespectacled miscreant that runs the senate won’t figure out some procedural trick to avoid a filibuster by Dems and pass it.

(1) Ghosts of right-wing conservatives past.

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He’s talking children, not adults.

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I have a great idea for a plan. How about lowering the age of medicare to 9 months before birth.

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It’s back!

FLAGGED

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Strange how he notices when one wealthy white guy has an insurance problem. The other millions of people in the same boat? Statistics.

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America’s Death Panel Parties On!!

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Read the rest of the sequence for full context. Basically, an originally accurate, yet bland, headline was changed by a NYT editor coz balance, reasons.

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Good job!

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“2291” - Nice touch

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I love that the “Jimmy Kimmel Test” is going to become a meme…and by a Republican no less.

The more healthcare becomes personalized, the more the Democratic vision for healthcare takes hold.

There’s always going to be a few haters, but most Americans empathize with Kimmel and if he becomes the poster boy for the ACA, that’s great.

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Video>>>>>

https://twitter.com/funder/status/860177600362184705

Norcross (D-NJ):

Who benefits? The billionaires and the undertakers.

And this Senator thinks that everything is cool if Jimmy Kimmel is cool with it? How about more coverage is cool at lower cost? No, just get celebrities like Kimmel on board and we cool. I’m out.

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“We take care of people with pre-existing conditions. We do it by
expanding the risk pool so that those who are sicker, if you will, are
in a pool of those who are younger and healthier. It works,”

Does anyone know what he is talking about? It sounds like the polar opposite of Ryan’s risk pools. In fact, it sounds an awful lot like the ACA.

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It flipped the script slightly - it usually posts a few innocuous comments before moving on to attacking another poster with name calling. Doesn’t matter - the TPM mods are on it!

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Note that Kimmel also mentioned his son would never be able to get health insurance, because his heart problems would always be a pre-existing condition.

So, another question for Bozo the Senator is whether Kimmel’s kid will be able to buy health insurance when he grows up.

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