--- --- # Read Jimmy Kimmel's Moving Healthcare Monologue That Everyone's Talking About  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 20, 2017 3:18 PM UTC  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Sep 20, 2017 3:18 PM UTC On Tuesday night, Jimmy Kimmel [took to his late night show](http://time.com/4949096/jimmy-kimmel-health-care-obamacare/) once more to talk healthcare — a subject near and dear to him personally, [after his infant son](http://time.com/4771820/jimmy-kimmel-newt-gingrich-health-care/) dealt with heart surgery in the days after his birth last May. He delivered a heartfelt monologue then about the importance of adequate health coverage for all Americans, and in the wake of new healthcare legislation from Senators Bill Cassidy and Lindsay Graham, he returned to the subject with an emotional plea. --- > “” --- Kimmel then played a CNN clip proving that Cassidy had, indeed, created this test. (Medical experts who have assessed the Graham-Cassidy bill [do not believe](http://fortune.com/2017/09/19/graham-cassidy-jimmy-kimmel-pre-existing-conditions/) it would sufficiently cover people with pre-existing conditions like Billy.) --- > “” --- They played another clip of Cassidy, this time appearing alongside Kimmel on his show. In the video, Cassidy says “Yep” to Kimmel’s question about Americans receiving healthcare, regardless of income. --- > “” --- Read the Passionate Jimmy Kimmel Healthcare Monologue ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/"},"headline":"Read Jimmy Kimmel's Moving Healthcare Monologue That Everyone's Talking About","datePublished":"2017-09-20T15:18:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:24.892Z","description":"The talk show host took down Senator Bill Cassidy's new healthcare plan, calling him to task for lying to Kimmel in a previous appearance.","url":"https://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Healthcare","Jimmy Kimmel","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/","name":"Read Jimmy Kimmel's Moving Healthcare Monologue That Everyone's Talking About"}}]}] ```