Jimmy Kimmel, Monday 1/26

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4. Defender of healthcare

Kimmel is a defender of healthcare in this country, unlike the GOP who falsely claim they are.

Back in 2017, Sen Cassidy try to replace ACA and said it passed the "Jimmy Kimmel test".

Kimmel would have none of it.

"Health care is complicated; it's boring; I don't want to talk about it," Kimmel said. "The details are confusing, and that's what these guys are relying on. They're counting on you to be so overwhelmed with all the information, you just trust them to take care of you. But they're not taking care of you. They're taking care of the people who give them money like insurance companies, and we're all just looking at our Instagram accounts liking things, while they're voting on whether people can afford to keep their children alive or not. Most of the congresspeople who vote on this bill probably won't even read it. And they want us to do the same thing. They want us to treat it like an iTunes service agreement. And this guy, Bill Cassidy, just lied right to my face."

In his monologue, Kimmel urged that no matter how much money a family makes, there should be no annual or lifetime caps. Because of the high cost of procedures like open-heart surgery, lifetime or annual caps on what insurers pay out mean families foot the rest of the bill.