--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Spoofs GOP Health Care Bill With Harry Potter description: Leading up to the release of Senate Republicans' new health care bill, Jimmy Kimmel shared his thoughts on the preparation of the proposal. canonical: https://time.com/4828280/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-harry-potter/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-22T15:53:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-08T09:19:41.580Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Health Care Plan With Harry Potter Spoof og:description: "It’s the bill that must not be named." og:url: https://time.com/4828280/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-harry-potter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe543b6682b80f95/6988d2d0cf40a8361cc483d5/screen-shot-2017-06-22-at-9-58-01-am.png?branch=production&width=956&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 956 og:image:height: 538 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2017-06-22 at 9.58.01 AM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Mocks Health Care Plan With Harry Potter Spoof twitter:description: "It’s the bill that must not be named." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfe543b6682b80f95/6988d2d0cf40a8361cc483d5/screen-shot-2017-06-22-at-9-58-01-am.png?branch=production&width=956&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Turned the GOP Health Care Plan Into the Darkest _Harry Potter_ Trailer Possible > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=a49856a7-9c46-450a-8ab6-8fcec64546ba&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans Reveal Their Largely Guarded Health-Care Bill [Watch (HLS stream): Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans Reveal Their Largely Guarded Health-Care Bill](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/BrrUguOQ.m3u8) (1:24)  _Published 2017-06-22. Senate Republicans released their long-awaited bill Thursday to dismantle much of Barack Obama's health care law_  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 22, 2017 3:53 PM UTC Senate Republicans released their long-awaited bill Thursday to dismantle much of Barack Obama's health care law  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jun 22, 2017 3:53 PM UTC Leading up to Senate Republicans’ release of a [new version of the American Health Care Act](http://time.com/4827805/senate-republican-health-care-obamacare-ahca-draft/), [Jimmy Kimmel](http://time.com/4826393/jimmy-kimmel-valedictorian-speech/) took some time to share his thoughts on the [closed-door preparation](http://time.com/money/4825746/ahca-health-care-law-senate/) of the proposal. During the opening monologue of Wednesday’s episode of _Live!_, the host blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and his fellow GOP lawmakers for their lack of transparency regarding the bill. “\[McConnell\] is keeping this bill such a tightly guarded secret even senators in \[his\] own party haven’t been allowed to look at it,” he explained. “They’ve held no hearings, they’ve allowed no debate. All we know is the legislation — which would affect many millions of Americans — is being written in secret by a group of 13 male senators. All men, no women.” Kimmel went on to compare the plan to a plot from the _Harry Potter_ series, airing a fake trailer for _Mitch McConnell and the Chamber of Secrets_. “It’s the bill that must not be named,” he joked. Watch the full clip above. ## Transcript We agreed on the [ UNKNOWN ] to free America from Obama care's mandates and policies contained in the discussion [ UNKNOWN ] we'll repel the individual mandate so Americans are no longer forced to buy insurance they don't need or can't afford. We'll repel the employer mandate so that Americans no longer see their hours and take home pay cut by employers. Because of it. It eliminate costly Obamacare taxes that are passed on to consumers, so we can put downward pressure on premiums, expand tax- free health savings account, and deploy targeted tax credits so we we can help defray out- of- pocket costs And shift power from Washington to the states so they have more flexibility to provide more Americans with the kind of affordable insurance options they actually want. Obamacare isn't working, by nearly any measure it has failed and no amount of 11th hour reality denying, or buck passing by Democrats is going to change the fact. That more Americans are going to get hurt unless we do something. I regret that our Democratic friends made clear early on that they did not want to work with us in a serious bipartisan way to address the Obamacare status quo. But Republicans believe we have a responsibility to act and we are. 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