Is he telling the truth?

"Jimmy Kimmel got personal tonight on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” opening up about complications following the birth of his son 10 days ago.

Kimmel broke down, tearing up through his nearly 15-minute long monologue. He recounted the “terrifying” few hours after Billy was born, how he started to turn purple about three hours after he was born, and a nurse at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center noticed and rushed him into emergency care.

Kimmel thanked the long list of doctors and nurses at Cedars-Sinai where Billy was born and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles where he was rushed for emergency heart surgery.

He also made a plea for politicians on both sides of the aisle to make sure Americans have access to healthcare especially for those with pre-existing conditions, as his son has after being born with a heart defect.

“If your baby is going to die it shouldn’t matter how much money you make,” he said.

He flashed a slate for Children’s Hospital Los Angeles on the screen urging viewers to donate.

“I hope you never have to go there but if you do you’ll see so many kids from so many financial backgrounds being cared for so well with so much compassion.”

Kimmel said the surgeon “did some kind of magic" I can’t even begin to explain. It was the longest three hours of my life.”
Burgers, is this true? If you don't have insurance, and your newborn needs life saving surgery, will the hospital ignore it?

Did they ignore it before obamacare?

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do you really think someone who married a Jew would do that? just go on TV and tell lies?

I fucked up the formatting. My question is:

Burgers, is this true? If you don't have insurance, and your newborn needs life saving surgery, will the hospital ignore it?

Did they ignore it before obamacare?

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It's not that the hospital will ignore it, very contrary. The issue is that costs for treatment for anything over pills is ridiculously over-inflated due to insurance. It's the same issue as education here, if a business knows someone else will subsidize it in the majority of cases they will increase costs to get as much as they can.

That said, Kimmel is a highly famous and I'm sure highly paid entertainer who has no problem paying for his child's treatment. This comes off as disingenuine because anyone with an idea of his role in media should know he is paid extravagantly. The underlying problem is that insurance caused a massive increase in the cost of healthcare in the US, not that people didn't have insurance in the first place.

Everyone in America has access to healthcare you fucking retards, hospitals don't turn you away for not having insurance. They just put you in debt.

>“If your baby is going to die it shouldn’t matter how much money you make,” he said.
Pre-existing coverage makes no difference in whether "your baby is going to die" or not.

Any hospital with an obstetrics wing is typically forced by state law to have a pediatrician on staff and some way to elevate care (via transport). From both their professional oath, and EMTALA, no doctor is going to "stand by" and let a child born with a reversible condition die.

>If you don't have insurance, and your newborn needs life saving surgery, will the hospital ignore it?
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No.

there are certain hospitals that treat children for free.
If you're poor, you get free healthcare (medicare)
The people that get fucked are families that make enough to not be above the poverty line, but have to buy their own insurance.

I don't care about any late night talk show host.

I hope his kid dies

fucking faggot basically saying "changing healthcare = killing babies"

yet this libtard supports planned parenthood WHICH KILLS BABIES

you fucking hypocrite.

i bet he gave his child vaccines

>Public and private hospitals alike are prohibited by law from denying a patient care in an emergency. The Emergency Medical and Treatment Labor Act (EMTLA) passed by Congress in 1986 explicitly forbids the denial of care to indigent or uninsured patients based on a lack of ability to pay.
Yep.

If everyone has insurance, why is there debt you mouth breathing faggot.

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He's so brave!

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I work in finance and the amount of people with judgments slapped against them for medical bills would astound you. You'll get your treatment but the hospital ensures they are getting their money one way or the other, unless you never receive credit for the rest of your life.

I just reread your post. I'm a mouth breathing faggot. I thought you said everyone has insurance.

No, they don't refuse to perform life saving surgery on anyone. If you need it, it will be provided.

However, in the recovery room, they will hand you the bill, and tell you that you're now hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

They don't all have insurance. Obamacare was pretty much a colossal failure. I have really good insurance and I still pay about 2k out of pocket every year because I have insane yearly post-transplant tests to do. These would cost 25-50k without insurance. You won't be turned away but they do transfer the whole bill to you. That being said there are many ways to get rid of this debt but most people are too stupid or too lazy to figure it out.

This is exactly the sort of pathetic emotional appeal that Liberals would NEVER apply to any Conservative under any circumstances. They don't give a single fuck about your life, or your children, and in fact they laugh about the death of the White Race openly and ridicule anyone to whom that might matter.

Don't let them hijack your compassion. That is one of their most fundamental tools: manipulate emotions in the short term in order to secure power over the long term. These people are evil, and they use your love of life as a weapon against you. They are beyond depraved. Guard yourself.

Are the libtards circle jerking about this shit the same people who advocate, if not celebrate the execution of these babies before they're born, as if there's such a difference between a newborn and 6 month old fetus?

Absolutely not. And no, they did no such thing before Obamacare.

It's a complete and utter joke.

Insurance is why it costs so much. People say the solution is more insurance but that is just adding to the root of the problem.

when you are being charged for a crime it shouldn't matter to the effectiveness of your defense how much money you make, but it does
someone get jimmy kimmel arrested

It's a classic leftist "solution" to a problem. Leftists only think of the immediate, short term solution to an issue rather than the underlying cause of the issue itself. See health insurance vs. healthcare costs, college tuitions, etc.

It's all very "One step into the problem and here is how we fix it" rather than "This is how we prevent the problem from arising again".

Question: do hospitals charge an un-insured individual more than they charge an insurance company for the same procedure, even if the county individual has paid his mandated penalty?

Jimmy kimmel is rich as fuck and hes sooking about obamacare. Literally END YOUR FUCKING LIFE

I'll be honest, I do not know. I'm sure it comes down to the individual hospital on what they charge but I have seen judgments ranging from just a couple hundred dollars to tens of thousands. I never delved into it with my clients because that's too personal and I personally would never want to divulge that.

That said, I do not believe it is legal for hospitals to charge more to an un-insured person as that is discrimination but again that is speculation. I believe it is more the costs are across the board for all individuals assuming most cases are insured and the hospital will be able to recover most of the costs (mostly profit) through an insurance company. A lot of my clients have been able to reduce judgments based entirely on the fact they are about to get paid, even a little bit, rather than not at all which makes me think the hospital knows the actual cost and is willing to settle far less than the billed price because of that.

Any retard should have known that Obamacare was destined to fail.

What did you think was going to happen when you mandate that EVERYONE in the US buy your shitty insurance?!

I'll help you out:
Millions of dumbass burgers who never had insurance because it was cost prohibitive, (and consequently never went to the doctor for anything), now have it because you made it mandatory.

How healthy do you think those people who never went to a doctor for anything were?

Are you really surprised that all of a sudden tens of millions of new claims are being filed by the unhealthy masses? "If I have to pay for this insurance, I may as well use it." Hurrr durrr.

Did you really think the insurance companies were just going to absorb those losses?!

Of course it failed.

>That said, I do not believe it is legal for hospitals to charge more to an un-insured person as that is discrimination but again that is speculation.
They all can and some do charge "cash pay" or "self pay" patients more. I mean, not all hospitals, but there certainly isn't any federal law against it and I'm not aware of any state's laws regulating "cash" rates.

A lot of websites suggest you pretend you're "self pay" if you've got a high deductible to pay less than the commercial fees, but that can backfire hard if you don't know what you're doing.

>(((Sinai))) medical center

Interesting.

That only strengthens the argument against the health insurance industry in the US and its negative effects on healthcare. It's just insane how far gone Obama has made this country in his last 8 years.

This I received a night and service in a hospital. I did t have insurance initially the bill was about 1200 but I got it reduces to 110

You mean the families that fall just above the poverty line. Yeah it really does suck. It sucks even more of what even made you in such a position such as an on work accident leading to medical malpractice.

A hollywood actor got paid to lie and cry on camera in order to advance the policies of the corrupt democrat party.
I am surprised.
> pick one

I don't know about LA children's hospital but around here we have St. Jude's children's hospital. And it's all free.

Yep, free premium care for sick kids and their families, in Murrica, no less!

fpbp the irony

>Kimmel said the surgeon “did some kind of magic"
It's not magic you fucking idiot it's science. Why do we let this man entertain our children?

Yes, uninsured ppl pay more. Insurance companies broker better deals for their patients. The loss is transferred to the uninsured.