The middle of the National Health care debate after i know its ridiculous, but after a senator, senator bill cassidy of louisiana who was on my show in may and promised a Health Care Plan would pass the jimmy kimmel test. My son billy had open heart surgery shortly after he was born. He needs two more surgeries and that experience opened my eyes to how difficult life can be for parents in that situation and how important it is that families are covered like we are. Unfortunately, the plan senator k cassleue ayidndis h C Lindsey Graham came up with does not sufficiently protect those parents or children or anyone really. So i called him out, because he said it passed the jimmy kimmel test. Its a personal thing for me. I was in three cities this weekend, and at a charity event. I met so many people, almost every one of them was a stranger, wanting to tell me that the Affordable Care act that our president and half our senators are trying to kill saved or drastically approved their lives,
Press on. Developmentshese we want to hear from you not only on this legislative effort but on the Bigger Picture of your message to congress when it comes to what the federal government should be doing on health care. Democrats, 202 202 01 republicans, 7488002 independents. If you want to give us a tweet you can do so and you can also post on our facebook page. Heres the press release from Susan Collins released yesterday after her announcement that she would not support the Graham Cassidy bill saying she has three major concerns. Both proposals make sweeping cuts in medicaid. More than 1 trillion would be taken out of the program. Both bills open the door for states to weaken protections for people with preexisting conditions. Physicians and Patient Advocates and insurers and hospitals agree they would lead to higher premiums and reduce coverage for tens of millions of americans. It was on cnn yesterday during a debate on health care that one of the cosponsors of Graham Cassidy talke
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