Claim: Regarding the surgery that saved Jimmy Kimmel's son, "Medicaid has stopped providing this kind of service.
Verdict: REFUTES

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title: Jimmy Kimmel test
text: purplish appearance when he was three hours old. He underwent successful surgery at three days old. Kimmel's show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", was cancelled during the entire week of April 24 without public explanation so Kimmel could spend time with his family. Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air on May 1, 2017. Kimmel chose to focus on his son's birth and health condition in his first episode back, inviting cardiac surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz onto his show to explain his son's condition. During the show's opening monologue, Kimmel referenced Congress' efforts to repeal parts of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, and

title: Jimmy Kimmel test
text: for the Affordable Care Act, the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The bill was withdrawn on March 24, 2017 after it was certain that the House would fail to garner enough votes to pass it. The result was in-fighting within the Republican Party. However, deliberations on the American Health Care Act continued. William ("Billy") John Kimmel, the son of comedian and late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel, was born on April 21, 2017. The infant was born with a rare congenital heart defect, tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with pulmonary atresia, which was first detected by a nurse who noticed his

title: Bill Cassidy
text: in 1883. On May 8, 2017, Cassidy appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" to discuss health care in the United States. He said that any legislation that he would support must meet the "Jimmy Kimmel test", namely: "Would a child born with congenital heart disease be able to get everything he or she would need in that first year of life?" Kimmel had earlier chastised Republicans for voting to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with legislation that would not ensure protection for children such as his newborn, who was born with a heart defect that required immediate surgery.

title: Graham–Cassidy health care amendment
text: The amendment would also redistribute federal money differently to different states, with some states that expanded Medicaid under the ACA (which are generally Democratic) losing federal money to states that did not (which are generally Republican). In May 2017, late night comedy host Jimmy Kimmel shared with his audience that his son was born with tetralogy of Fallot, a birth defect of the heart. Shortly after, Cassidy began claiming that he wanted any health care bill to pass what he dubbed the "Jimmy Kimmel test," which he defined as "would a child born with congenital heart disease be able to

title: Brian Kilmeade
text: Kilmeade responded to Kimmel: "I hope your son gets better. I hope your son gets all the care he needs. I'm glad you're interested, you're doing a great job bringing the dialogue out. But you should do what we're doing. Talk to the people that wrote it [the Graham-Cassidy healthcare bill]." On June 22, 2018, Kilmeade on "Fox & Friends" defended the Trump administration family separation policy by saying, "Like it or not, these are not our kids" in reference to foreign-born children who had been separated from their parents and put in detainment. In 2018, Kilmeade criticized Leslie Stahl

title: Jimmy Kimmel test
text: the possibility that repeal would lead to individuals with pre-existing medical conditions losing their health insurance: Kimmel's monologue received substantial attention in the news and on social media. Within 24 hours, video of the monologue was viewed over 14 million times and received over 230,000 reactions on Facebook. The video was retweeted by former President Obama and former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. On May 4, the House of Representatives passed the AHCA (which would repeal portions of the ACA), sending the bill to the Senate. On Friday, May 5, United States Senator Bill Cassidy told CNN that he would decide

title: Brian Kilmeade
text: tacos?" On June 3, 2014, Kilmeade made a reference about Bowe Bergdahl's father on air, stating, “I mean, he says he was growing his beard because his son was in captivity. Well, your son’s out now. So if you really don’t want to no longer look like a member of the Taliban, you don’t have to look like a member of the Taliban. Are you out of razors?" On September 20, 2017, Kilmeade commented on Emmy Awards host Jimmy Kimmel's criticism of the Republican-controlled Senate's attempts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act by saying, “Sunday’s politically charged Emmys

title: Wesley Warren Jr.
text: Medicaid, which would involve cutting away the swollen tissue and performing reconstructive surgery, including skin grafts to restore his penis and testicles. However, Warren was advised that they might have to be removed along with the tissue. This was not welcome news: "Basically, he was telling me there was a good chance that I would be castrated and have to go to the bathroom through a tube for the rest of my life. I really would like to have a relationship with a woman. I should be in the prime of my life right now." At a further evaluation at

title: Kim Sullivan Hughes
text: life-threatening heart valve replacement surgery, something sure to alter her and Bob's life for years. During this time she had an out of body experience where she would see her life if she had died on the operating table. In addition, Kim was injured in a church bombing and was in a coma for a time. She recovered with a new appreciation for her family and friends and a new commitment to make a difference in their lives. On this note, Kim donated her bone marrow to Hope Snyder. Kim was later shocked to learn that Hope was her very

title: Brian Kilmeade
text: may have been the lowest-rated in history, but that’s not stopping Hollywood elites like comedian Jimmy Kimmel from pushing their politics on the rest of the country.” This prompted Kimmel to call Kilmeade a "phony little creep." Kimmel, who has often referenced his son's congenital heart defect in his comments regarding health care, said of Kilmeade: “Oh, he’s such a fan "—" I think he’s been on the show. He follows me on Twitter; he asked me to write a blurb for his book, which I did; he calls my agent looking for projects. He’s dying to be a member

title: Jimmy Kimmel test
text: be acknowledged as a legitimate factor in their failure. In a nationwide poll conducted from September 22-25, 2017, voters were asked if they trusted Jimmy Kimmel or Republicans in Congress more on health care; 47% of respondents chose Kimmel while only 34% chose Republicans. Jimmy Kimmel test The "Jimmy Kimmel test" is a political litmus test used in political discourse in the United States during 2017 efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. First proposed by United States Senator Bill Cassidy, the test was used throughout 2017 to frame political debate over health care reform, and Cassidy's

title: Jimmy Kimmel test
text: pay for insurance coverage. The "Jimmy Kimmel test" was regularly mentioned by pundits and observers in 2017 during national conversation on health care. CNN analyst Chris Cillizza described the Jimmy Kimmel test as becoming "the health care fight's measuring stick." In June 2017, the test was used to quickly frame debate over the Senate version of an Affordable Care Act repeal bill. Shortly after the bill was unveiled to the public by Senate leadership, reporters asked Cassidy if he believed the Senate repeal bill would pass the Jimmy Kimmel test. Cassidy replied that he believed that it would, but that

title: Stephen Perry (writer)
text: into an Emergency Room with no insurance or no doctor. They removed a tumor, kicked me out after five days, and now the cancer is back. Thanks to the Hero Initiative, I survived long enough to get Medicaid and welfare, and now have Doctors, and can get the follow up care to try and survive the return of the cancer." Perry released a statement in praise of the help he received from The Hero Initiative which stated, "The Initiative gave me the breathing room to get some Medicaid and food stamps, and while we are always in danger of losing

title: Jimmy Kimmel test
text: whether he would support the AHCA based on whether it would "pass the Jimmy Kimmel test", which he described as measuring whether a child born with a pre-existing health condition would continue to receive health care regardless of cost. Following Cassidy's comments, Kimmel invited Cassidy onto his show to discuss the Senate version of the bill. Cassidy appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" via satellite on May 8, 2017. While interviewing Cassidy, Kimmel attempted to establish a clearer definition of the "Jimmy Kimmel test". Cassidy responded that Kimmel was on the "right track", and then shifted the discussion to how to

title: Cho Kyu-hyun
text: to repair his son's lungs. In spite of this, doctors insisted that even with the surgery Kyuhyun "had about a 20 percent chance to live." After fierce debate between his parents and doctors, another surgeon named Dr. Wang Youngpil suggested an alternative operation that would instead make an incision in the ribs. Kyuhyun spent six days in the ICU before he was transferred to a regular hospital room. After being moved, Kyuhyun no longer needed support from a respiratory machine, but he was not able to walk on his own until one month after the accident. He was discharged on

title: Sun Orthodontix
text: services, and so Sun Orthodontix could no longer participate in the Medicaid program. Stephanie Goodman, the communications director of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, said that the state did not drop any children from Medicaid and did not modify the state's Medicaid coverage. Goodman stated that the Medicaid program only covers braces when there are medical justifications and not when aesthetics is the only consideration. The Medicaid program is only supposed to cover orthodontics if it corrects severe conditions such as cleft lip and palate or complications from another condition, such as Down's syndrome or muscular dystrophy. The

title: Wesley Warren Jr.
text: felt that it was unfair to Warren to "endure a cancellation." Gelman was critical of Nevada Medicaid's stance, saying that it's "terrible that Nevada isn't handling this the right way. When there's no expertise in a state to handle something, it doesn't seem right that Nevada can't pay the hospital when the doctors work for free." He commented that he and the other surgeons had donated their expertise not only to help Warren, but to show to other sufferers from scrotal elephantiasis that something could be done for them as well. He was optimistic about Warren's future: "There are a

title: Tom Coburn
text: did not have consent to sterilize her, while Coburn claimed he had her oral consent. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed with no finding of liability on Coburn's part. The state attorney general claimed that Coburn committed Medicaid fraud by not reporting the sterilization when he filed a claim for the emergency surgery. Medicaid did not reimburse doctors for sterilization procedures for patients under 21 and according to the attorney general, Coburn would not have been reimbursed at all had he not withheld this information. Coburn says since he did not file a claim for the sterilization, no fraud was committed.

title: Katie Beckett Medicaid waiver
text: The effect was that many families, unable to afford home treatment, kept their children in costly hospital settings in order to meet the Medicaid 30-day requirement. Katie Beckett waivers allow Medicaid to cover medical services for children in the home, regardless of the parents' income, in cases where home-based treatment will cost less than or the same as treatment in a hospital. The waiver is named for Katie Beckett, a three-year-old who had been hospitalized since infancy so that she could receive ventilator assistance after a viral encephalitis infection left her partially paralyzed in a way that affected her ability

title: Bill Cassidy
text: Budget and Policy Priorities found that the legislation "would cut federal health care funding by $299 billion relative to current law" in the year 2027 alone and estimated that it would leave 32 million more Americans without health insurance. President Donald Trump endorsed the bill. The bill does not meet the "Jimmy Kimmel test", as it would allow states to eliminate requirements to cover children with conditions like that of Kimmel's child. Kimmel condemned Cassidy, calling him a liar, listed the health organizations that opposed Graham-Cassidy, and urged his viewers to contact their Congressional representatives about the legislation. Cassidy responded