Senator Cassidy floor remarks on patient freedom act, coining kimmel test

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy discusses a proposed health care bill, the patient freedom act, cosponsored with Maine Senator Susan Collins. Cassidy says that blue states can continue with the status quo under the affordable care act, red states can go in a different direction, and those who do nothing would be set up with a health savings account pre-funded. Cassidy says under his plan. The patient has the power, mentioning a rule of thumb as a doctor that when he goes into a hospital to deliver babies it is clear that pregnant women have the power. Cassidy says he is not sure that Congress is going to pass meaningful reform that is as good as it could be with only Republican support, that it would be good if President Trump in his contract with the voters said he would eliminate mandates and lower premiums, asking colleagues to move beyond partisanship into a spirit of cooperation, that he had coined a phrase and did not realize it, the Jimmy Kimmel test, whose child was born, not to a celebration but with a rare cardiac condition and was transferred for an operation and then doing well, concluding that you can lower premiums by having lousy coverage, but whoever you love can have coverage whenever they need it and be fiscally responsible.