3 Pinocchios FOR Sen. Cassidy's rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: 'More people will have coverage'

3 Pinocchios … FOR Sen. Cassidy's rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: 'More people will have coverage'

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Sen. Cassidy’s rebuttal to Jimmy Kimmel: ‘More people will have coverage’

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By Glenn Kessler September 21 at 3:00 AM
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Kimmel rips into Cassidy for failing 'his own test' on health care

“I’m sorry he doesn’t understand. Under Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson, more people will have coverage.”
–Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), interviewed on CNN’s “New Day,” Sept. 20, 2017

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel attacked Cassidy over the health-care repeal plan crafted by Cassidy and Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), Dean Heller (R-Nev.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) as a last-ditch effort to replace the Affordable Care Act. Kimmel asserted, among other things, that the proposed law “will kick about 30 million Americans off insurance.”

Firing back, Cassidy flatly stated that “more people will have coverage… There are more people who will be covered through this bill than under the status quo.”

As always with health-care policy, this is complicated stuff. But let’s dig through the code words and see whether Cassidy’s claim holds up to scrutiny.
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