gifr him the benefit of the doubt, and i know what, i do give him the benefit of the doubt. i do all the benefits he claims will turn to something. he talks about bill cassidy s personal commitment to protect families with preexisting conditions, such as kimmel s newborn son s harrowing open heart surgery. will it stall the momentum of the republicans last ditch effort to pass the obamacare repeal before the deadline? joining me, chuck todd, host of mtp daily right here on msnbc. chuck, let s talk health care. this is touch and go. there has been a lot of benefits offered to alaska after the alaska governor and other republican governors came out against this. and alaska, of course, is critical because lisa measure c murkowski s vote is hanging in the balance. one of the things i heard
i m dr. kelsey mcneely and some day you might be calling me an energy farmer. energy lives here. no parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child s life. it just shouldn t happen. not here. jimmy kimmel touched a lot of people when he opened up about his newborn son s heart defect this week. kimmel recounted his son s open heart surgery. he paid tribute to his wife, doctor, friends and family. and then he went further than many people in public life. he took a political risk by linking his son s predicament, born into this world with a preexisting condition, to the trump administration s plans to both cut funding for the nih and
serious allergic reactions can occur. now s your chance at completely clear skin. just ask your doctor about taltz. no parent should ever have to decide if they can afford to save their child s life. it just shouldn t happen. not here. so. jimmy kimmel touched a lot of people when he opened up about his newborn son s heart defect this week. kimmel recounted his son s open heart surgery. he paid tribute to his wife, doctor, friends and family. and then he went further than many people in public life. he took a political risk by linking his son s predicament, born into this world with a preexisting condition, to the trump administration s plans to both cut funding for the nih and to repeal obamacare. over 10 million people have now
do. everyone is in agreement how we do that. we have to lower the costs and the premiums. there s things we can do on reforming, the pharmaceuticals, we have to drive down the cost. we need more generic drugs out there. there s a lot of things to do to bring the cost of health care down, but we have to get more young people into that system. this new bill eliminating the mandates, and it s a gigantic tax cut for the wealthiest to take people off of health care. that s not a system that is sustainable. we can all agree that we need to fix the aca that s what we ought to do. we compete on a global basis. i can only do that if i have a healthy workforce. governor, thanks for your time. enjoy the weekend. one of the key republican votes to watch in the senate, bill cassidy of louisiana. he made a very interesting comment today about his litmus test for the health care bill. it was a reference to that clip that many of us saw with jimmy kimmel talking about his newborn
which med school is approached needs to change and they want it to change, shannon, in the way they say what they need to do is recruit people from the rural areas and get them trained so they can then place them back in towns they re used to and a lifestyle they re used to around people with with an income they re comfortable with. shannon: thank you so much. if your baby is going to die, it doesn t have to. it shouldn t matter how much money you make. i think that s something whether you are a republican or democrat or something else, we all agree on that, right? we do. bill: there is still a lot of reaction to that monologue from jimmy kimmel the other night talking about his newborn son s medical emergency. charty hurt is making the case that he was using his son as a political prop. this is very harsh even what