GOP Health Care Bill Author Swings Back at Jimmy Kimmel

Jimmy Kimmel's blistering monologue on Tuesday night against the latest GOP plan to repeal ObamaCare called out one of its authors by name, and now Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy is swinging back. 

What he and Lindsey Graham conceived would take the money ObamaCare spends on Medicaid and insurance subsidies, trim it, and dole the resulting pot to the states to spend on health care as they like. 

On CNN's New Day on Wednesday, Cassidy put it simply: "I'm sorry he does not understand. Under [the bill] more people will have coverage, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions." He says the latter point is true due to a provision that requires states seeking a waiver related to pre-existing conditions to guarantee those in this group have "affordable" coverage. More:

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