A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel... Michelle Malkin

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A Thinking Mom's Message for Jimmy Kimmel
Michelle Malkin
5/3/2017 12:01:00 AM -

I feel your pain. But please use your brain.

On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery.

Millions of American parents, myself included, have walked in Kimmel's shoes. We've experienced the terrifying roller coaster of emotions -- panic, helplessness, anger, anxiety, relief, grief and unconditional love -- that comes with raising chronically ill kids.

But Kimmel didn't use his high-profile platform to educate the public about coping with rare diseases. Or to champion the nation's best and brightest pediatric specialists and medical innovators. The Tinseltown celebrity turned his personal plight into a political weapon, which his liberal friends were all too happy to wield. Top Democrats tweeted their praise for Kimmel's advocacy of expanded government health care regulations:

"Well said, Jimmy," Barack Obama gushed.

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Hundreds of millions of people truly believe big government is better despite all the evidence to the contrary. 

Sometimes I'll ask my liberal friends to show me their evidence and they're only too happy to tick off a few pie in the sky notions.  It always floors me, what they truly believe to be facts are downright scary.  Yet they believe them 100% and no amount of opposing facts can shake them loose of their beliefs.

It's like a religion.  Don't bog them down with details or real life examples that prove them wrong.  Like Native Americans of the past they will pray to the rain gods so the crops will grow.  The Mayans would sacrifice humans to the sun god.  They just believe.

Conservatives make the mistake of countering these religious beliefs with facts.  "You see I've got this spreadsheet right here with all the numbers", we say.  Or we'll step them through the domino effect.  If you put in ethanol subsides you will upset the market for corn and the next thing you know there will be tortilla riots in Mexico (true story).  Try telling the Mayans there is no sun god and they need to learn about crop rotation instead.  Waste of time.

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Dear Jimmy, the Dell Children's Hospital in Austin was not built by big government.

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Insurance is not the same thing as medical care. Healthcare is available to every single person in this country. The question is who should pay for it.

Many years ago, my uninsured sister - who lived at the poverty level at the time as a young musician in Chicago - was involved in a bike accident and needed shoulder surgery. She got all the care she needed and then set up a payment plan with the hospital, which she fulfilled. Apparently, people no longer believe they should be responsible for their own expenses.

[Hondo69]

Insurance is not the same thing as medical care. Healthcare is available to every single person in this country. The question is who should pay for it.

Many years ago, my uninsured sister - who lived at the poverty level at the time as a young musician in Chicago - was involved in a bike accident and needed shoulder surgery. She got all the care she needed and then set up a payment plan with the hospital, which she fulfilled. Apparently, people no longer believe they should be responsible for their own expenses.