Meet Dr. DuHarm, aka spineless Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy M.D. and RFKjr enabler

Dr. Bill is chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP). He voted to confirm RFKjr as secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He should have known better but couldn't find his spine.

Headline:  Politico, 11/20/2025

Robert King reports:

The fierce pushback to Cassidy’s proposal, the most publicly detailed so far from a Republican, highlights the difficulty in finding consensus on the issue in a divided Congress by the end of the year. 

Cassidy’s plan, which has not yet been written up as a bill, involves taking money for an enhanced tax credit used to pay down premiums and giving it to consumers via a health savings account. The base tax credit passed as part of the original Affordable Care Act will remain in place. 

An HSA can be used to pay for various out-of-pocket costs like a deductible or a co-pay. However, it cannot go toward premiums, which are set to more than double on average in 2026 for Obamacare customers due in part to the loss of the enhanced subsidies. Other factors include surging health costs.  [emphasis added]

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August--October 2025

Spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. abases himself to curry favor and grovel for an endorsement from Donald Trump.  (10/31)

Steve  Scalise tells Bill Cassidy to fuck off.  (10/18)

Spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP senator prostrates himself at the altar of Trump again.  (10/14)

Spineless Mickey Mouse Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. defends his Trump bona fides.  (8/12)

Plan on spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. groveling at altar of Trump every day until November 3, 2026.  (8/9)

Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. places political survival over public service.  (8/3)

June-July 2025

Spineless Louisiana GOP US Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is too busy campaigning to be concerned about this catastrophe.  (7/17) 

Spineless, shameless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is not serving his constituents. (7/10)

It appears that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is willing to trash public health vaccine system just to get re-elected.  (6/21)

Finding himself in a tight squeeze, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. chooses loyalty to Trump over commitment to medicine.  (6/12)

But wait, there's more!!

March 2025

Chapter 1.  (3/10)   Censored

Chapter 2.  (3/10)

Chapter 3.  (3/10)

Chapter 4.  (3/11)

Chapter 5.  (3/12)

Chapter 6.  (3/12)

Chapter 7.  (3/13)

Chapter 8.  (3/14)

Chapter 9.  (3/14)

Chapter 10.  (3/14)

Chapter 11.  (3/14)
Chapter 12.  (3/14)

Chapter 13.  (3/15)

Chapter 14.  (3/18)

Chapter 15.  (3/19)

Chapter 16.  (3/19)

Chapter 17.  (3/21)

Chapter 18.  (3/22)

Chapter 19.  (3/26)

Chapter 20.  (3/28)

Chapter 21.  (3/29)

Chapter 22.  (3/30)

April 2025

Chapter 23.  (4/1/)

Chapter 24.  (4/2)

Is Bill Cassidy finally growing a spine or is this just another smokescreen.  (4/6)

Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy does the chicken dance while Robert Kennedy Jr. upends bird flu testing efforts.  (4/6)

What happens when Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy unleashes an anti-vaxxer on our health care system.  (4/7)

Measles and whooping cough outbreaks:  If only Bill Cassidy had found his spine 57 days ago.  (4/11)

Robert Kennedy Jr. continues to toy with and humiliate Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy, M.D.  (4/26)

May 2025

Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. visits Fantasyland.  (5/16)

Still getting snookered by RFKjr.  (5/16)

Louisiana U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. got snookered by Robert F. Kennedy and all he can do it smile about it.  (5/28)

Spineless behavior of Bill Cassidy M.D. unleashes more damage to United States health care system.  (5/29)

June 2025

You can thank spineless Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. for the makeover @HHS. (6/2)

Spineless Louisiana GOP Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. abets Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the war on science @HHS.  (6/7)

Once again we have spineless Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. to thank for this travesty.  (6/10)

It's clear that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. hasn't learned his lesson from January.  (6/11)

CNN analyst assumes that Louisiana GOP U.S  Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. had principles to abandon.  (6/11)

Finding himself in a tight squeeze, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. chooses loyalty to Trump over commitment to medicine.  (6/12)

Leading candidate for Sap of the Year?  Spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is a good bet.  (6/14)

State's largest newspaper takes spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. to task for his vaccine dithering.  (6/16)

Now in its 5th month!!  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. playing spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy M. D. for a fool.  (6/17)

You can place the blame on "the massive disruption of the public health vaccine system" at the cold feet of spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D.  (6/19)

Spineless Louisiana U.S. GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. earns an unflattering profile in The Nation. (6/20)

It appears that spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. is willing to trash public health vaccine system just to get re-elected.  (6/21)

134 days after voting to confirm Robert Kennedy Jr as secretary @HHS, Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D. takes a baby step to reclaim his spine.  (6/27) 

RFK Jr. Is systematically undermining vaccine science and endangering health while spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. dithers.  (6/27)

Local news media continue to hammer away at Louisiana GOP U.S. senator Bill Cassidy M.D. for his spinelessness.  (6/27)

July 2025

Whaddya think of this hare-brained scheme, spineless Louisiana GOP U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy M.D.?  (7/5)

In a sign of desperation , pathetic and spineless Louisiana GOP senator Bill Cassidy M.D. starts campaigning on big ugly bill.  (7/10)