After late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel recently weighed in on the healthcare debate with a story about how medical intervention had saved the life of his newborn son, a questioner at a Stanford University forum asked Mike Mulvaney, the Trump administration’s budget director, if he agreed that any replacement for the Affordable Care Act should meet the “Jimmy Kimmel test” standard.
While Mulvaney conceded that “we have plenty of money to provide that safety net so that if you get cancer you don’t…
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