--- title: Read the Passionate Jimmy Kimmel Healthcare Monologue 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. canonical: https://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-20T15:18:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:24.892Z og:title: Read Jimmy Kimmel's Latest Passionate Healthcare Monologue og:description: "I am politicizing my son's healthcare problems, because I have to." og:url: https://time.com/4949522/jimmy-kimmel-healthcare-transcript/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Read Jimmy Kimmel's Latest Passionate Healthcare Monologue twitter:description: "I am politicizing my son's healthcare problems, because I have to." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Read Jimmy Kimmel's Moving Healthcare Monologue That Everyone's Talking About > Sponsored content. 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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. 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