How Jimmy Kimmel Impacts The Health Care Debate

TAKE A LISTEN. >> TO THEM, I SAY ALL OF THESE
VERY REPUTABLE ORGANIZATIONS, AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION,
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY,
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON, ALL OF
THESE GROUPS POPULATED BY DOCTORS SAY THIS HEALTH CARE
BILL IS BAD. >> AGAIN, WE WILL HEAR FROM THE
PRESIDENT TONIGHT IN ALABAMA. KASIE, THE JIMMY KIMMEL FACTOR,
HOW MUCH WAS IT? >> LOOK, I ACTUALLY THINK IT
PLAYED A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT ROLE HERE.
IT WAS A HIGH PROFILE WAY TO THRUST THIS DEBATE ON TO CENTER
STAGE WHEN I THINK THAT REPUBLICANS, IF THEY DID WANT TO
PASS SOMETHING, THEY WERE QUITE FRANKLY BETTER OFF DOING IT
QUICKLY AND WITH AS LITTLE ATTENTION AS POSSIBLE, AND ONE
QUESTION I HAD WHEN THIS KIND OF CROPPED UP EARLIER THIS WEEK WAS
HOW QUICKLY WOULD DEMOCRATS BE ABLE TO REMOBILIZE ALL OF THE
FORCES THAT THEY BROUGHT TO BEAR RIGHT BEFORE THE LAST FAILURE.
I THINK JIMMY KIMMEL HELPED THEM IN THAT EFFORT.
HE HELPED THEM ELEVATE THIS IN A PRETTY REMARKABLE WAY.
HE ALSO BROUGHT -- >> USUALLY WHEN HOLLYWOOD GETS
INVOLVED IN THESE SORTS OF DEBATES, REPUBLICANS CAN USE
THAT IN THEIR FAVOR, SAYING HOLLYWOOD'S LIBERAL, THEY'RE NOT
ON YOUR SIDE. DON'T LISTEN TO THEM.
>> HE HAS SUCH A PERSONAL STORY AND HE SPOKE ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW,
ONE OF THE THINGS I DID THIS WEEK WAS WATCH THAT MONOLOGUE IN
MAY WHEN HE FIRST TALKED ABOUT HIS SON, AND HE IS CLEARLY
VISIBLY CHOKED UP AND EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT.
HE ALSO WAS PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD IN ACKNOWLEDGING
LOOK, THIS IS MY SON SO MY SON IS GOING TO BE OKAY, BECAUSE I
HAVE THIS POSITION WHERE I HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, I HAVE ALL OF
THESE THINGS YOU COULD POSSIBLY WANT, I CAN TAKE CARE OF MYSELF.
HE HAS ENOUGH MONEY. HE SAID TO PEOPLE, LOOK, MY SON
IS LUCKY BUT YOUR SON MIGHT NOT BE.
>> HE DID ONE THING I THOUGHT WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
HE FOCUSED ATTENTION ON THE DETAILS OF WHAT HAPPENED TO
PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS, BECAUSE REPUBLICANS
HAD A TALKING POINT ON THAT THAT PEOPLE WITH PRE-EXISTING
CONDITIONS WOULD BE PROTECTED, AND JIMMY KIMMEL, A COMEDIAN,
LATE NIGHT COMEDIAN, FOCUSED ON THE DETAILS OF HOW THAT WOULD
WORK AND HOW YOU COULD HAVE PROTECTION TO BUY INSURANCE BUT
MAYBE IT WOULD BE AT A PRICE YOU COULDN'T POSSIBLY AFFORD.
SO IN A WAY HE FUELED THE SUBSTANCE OF A DEBATE THAT
PROVED TO BE VERY DAMAGING. >> THE CBO WASN'T GOING TO COME
OUT WITH A SCORE FOR THIS
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