Kimmel triumphant as ObamaCare repeal bill appears dead

Jimmy Kimmel on Monday joked that it appears he was successful in his effort to kill the GOP’s latest ObamaCare repeal bill.

Kimmel said during his late-night show that he somehow wound up in the middle of the national health-care debate.

“I think I need to come clean. Here’s what happened: So my wife and I were worried about health care. We didn’t like what the Republicans were doing,” Kimmel said.

“So we decided to have a baby with congenital heart defects. And then once we had that going for us, I went on TV, I spoke out, and we may have stopped Cassidy-Graham. I still can’t believe we pulled it off, but we did.”

{mosads}Kimmel added: “It’s amazing, isn’t it?”

Kimmel said every major health organization and charity that deals with health and Medicare was on his side.

“Because the facts were on my side,” he said.

Kimmel also praised Republican Sens. John McCain (Ariz.) and Susan Collins (Maine), who both said they couldn’t support the bill.

“John McCain probably saved the Republican Party by doing this,” he said.

“This is one of the rare moments where we actually needed Congress to do nothing, which is what they’re really good at.”

He also joked that he can go back to “talking about the Kardashians.”

“The whole thing has been a roller coaster for me and my wife,” he added.

The last-ditch ObamaCare repeal effort appeared all but dead Monday after Collins became the third Republican to oppose the measure.

Collins announced her opposition minutes after the Congressional Budget Office analysis predicted that millions would lose insurance under the proposal if it became law.