Jimmy Kimmel on His Son’s Birth and Heart Disease

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1. “Sorry Jimmy Kimmel: your sad story doesn’t obligate me or anybody else to pay for somebody else’s health care.” – Former Rep. Joe Walsh (R-IL) responding to Jimmy Kimmel’s tearful, on-air explanation of his newborn son’s emergency heart surgery and defense of Obamacare.

   “Value$”.

   How are Republicans NOT deplorable, again?

   1. The unfortunate thing is that you can use that same rationale for anything that the government does, and that’s scary. We’re part of a society. Part of my taxes go to things that I personally do not want or don’t want to pay as much for, but that’s the price I pay to be in this community.

      Of course, if Joe Walsh said that, I won’t put much weight into his opinions. He believes in Secret Muslims afterall.

2. Yep we need to move to single-payer government healthcare just like Europe! In that way Jimmy Kimmel’s poor son would die while waiting for heart surgery, but at least he would not have to “pay” for it.

   THAT is far more compassionate, right?

   How are Democrats that want government-run socialism smart, again?

   1. Actually, from what I’ve read, Canada might offer a better argument for you. Wait times in Canada are measurably greater than in the United States, although I understand that problem is subsiding.

      Great Britain and Germany, on the other hand, both have substantially less waiting time than the United States.

      I don’t think Germany has a single-payer system, but they do have universal coverage, which I believe was the point of Jimmy Kimmel’s understandably emotional report on his new son. People should not be denied treatment because of their financial condition.

      You might want to develop your point, though. Waiting time alone does not tell us whether we’re talking about benign inconvenience or life-threatening indifference.

      We also have to consider other misleading factors in raw statistics. I vaguely recall an indignant presentation about the number of folks who died waiting for treatment in some program or other. However, further analysis revealed that the deaths in that presentation were almost all for unrelated reasons. If I die in an automobile accident, you can’t really blame the fact that I was waiting for a gall bladder operation, right?

      Still, I doubt I’d agree with any approach that speeds up treatment by kicking children out of line when their parents are insufficiently wealthy.

   2. “Yep we need to move to single-payer government healthcare just like Europe!”

      Not mentioned or insinuated at all in Kimmel’s monologue.

      Had you listened to the monologue, you’d know that he applauded the Government giving the National Institutes of Health more money and spoke about how his child was born with what would be considered a pre-existing condition. That pre-existing condition would, prior to current insurance regulations, keep him from getting the life saving care that is available to use.

      “Jimmy Kimmel’s poor son would die while waiting for heart surgery”

      Not that I’m advocating for European-style systems of paying for Healthcare, but this statement’s a bit hyperbolic, T.Paine.

      And since you went there without despite the Monologue not having anything to do with it:

      “but at least he would not have to “pay” for it.”

      And this is the wrong sentiment to have towards the dreaded Single-Payer. I think the appeal of Single-Payer is that you have access to healthcare. Period. I don’t think anyone who has access to a Single-Payer System is under any delusions that they are not paying for the medical care they receive.

3. “Kimmel’s poor son would die while waiting for heart surgery”

   THAT is far more compassionate, right?

   No. THAT is more far Right deflection and denial of reality.

   It’s obvious TP and the cons have no clue, nor concern, about the US having a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rate, and poorer health outcomes than those with that EEEVILL socialist health care.

   “Value$”.

   Infant mortality rates:

   USA #58

   https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html

   Life Expectancy at birth:

   USA #45

   http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?order=wbapi_data_value_2013+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc

   So how are cons smart again?

4. “Kimmel’s poor son would die while waiting for heart surgery”…THAT is far more compassionate, right?

   No, TP. THAT is more far Right deflection and denial of reality. If you please, show us evidence that would happen. If not, why are you saying something not based in reality?

   And some wonder why conservatives have no clue, nor concern, about the US having a lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality rate, and poorer health outcomes than those with that EEEVILL public health care. Only a system that funnels billions of dollars into CEO’s pockets can be the “best health care”. As if THEY provided a lick of care. Those are the ilk that denied people for pre-existing conditions. Good Republican conservatives, all. Cons STILL want to let them run the show.

   Why?

   “Value$”.

   Infant mortality rates:

   USA #58

   https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html

   Life Expectancy at birth:

   USA #45

   http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.IN?order=wbapi_data_value_2013+wbapi_data_value+wbapi_data_value-last&sort=desc

   So how are cons smart again?

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