Jimmy Kimmel once cried on TV because his child had heart surgery…

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The reality is that every kid who needs it gets the lifesaving surgery, and ZERO kids have not gotten it for insurance reasons. Even people of means have no problem getting these kids on Medicaid and paid for.

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Well, you’re wrong….here is a study and a specific example.

Hospitalized children who lack health insurance are more likely to die than those who have coverage, a large U.S. study finds.

Using data on more than 23 million child hospitalizations between 1988 and 2005, researchers found that children without insurance were 60 percent more likely to die than those with either private or government insurance coverage.

They estimate that lack of insurance directly contributed to nearly 17,000 children's deaths over 18 years.

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Noah, born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, needed a specialized heart surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital. His insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross, initially denied coverage, citing the hospital as out-of-network. The family appealed, but the surgery was ultimately canceled due to Noah’s deteriorating condition.

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Well, you’re wrong….here is a study and a specific example.

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His insurance provider, Anthem Blue Cross, initially denied coverage

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We were talking about kids without insurance and you give an example of a child with insurance getting denied. I've been working in healthcare for 32 years and I can promise you NO kid with or without insurance around here is withheld care due to cost.

Also, your "study" is 20 fricking years old.

Kimmel was full of shite then and you are full of shite now.

Kimmel is not funny..his TDS overwhelms any sense of humor..pathetic..

You can link whatever you want. I know that when my kid had heart surgery they charged my insurance almost $200,000 and then thousands more out of my pocket. If he would have been born to a family with no money he would have been in the same hospital, with the same surgeon, same everything. I know because I saw it during multiple hospital stays. It took years to payoff what the insurance didn’t cover.

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You can link whatever you want. I know that when my kid had heart surgery they charged my insurance almost $200,000 and then thousands more out of my pocket. If he would have been born to a family with no money he would have been in the same hospital, with the same surgeon, same everything. I know because I saw it during multiple hospital stays. It took years to payoff what the insurance didn’t cover.

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I'm not sure what you are arguing. You obviously had insurance and the ability to pay the co-pay. Co-pays are routinely written off if a person can prove that they do not have the ability to pay. Are you suggesting that the services should be provided for free?

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We were talking about kids without insurance and you give an example of a child with insurance getting denied. I've been working in healthcare for 32 years and I can promise you NO kid with or without insurance around here is withheld care due to cost.

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There are a few things that kids don’t get that are underinsured or don’t have insurance.

For referrals it’s really hard to get a doctor out of network or with no insurance. To get a referral from the specialist to a surgeon is even harder. You usually see the specialist 3 or more times before they refer you to a surgeon.

As a parent with good insurance that has went through the process it’s not a month or 2 it’s usually 6 to 9 months before getting to the 1st referral from your pediatrician to the specialist. Then there are referrals for CT scans, MRI’s, and echocardiograms. When that is complete you go back to the specialist and he gets a referral appt with the surgeon. Then the surgery is scheduled.

Each of these referrals takes longer when you are uninsured or underinsured. It can take twice as long or longer to get the surgery.

The easiest part is setting the surgery, because once you get to a place like Children’s Mercy they don’t care if you have insurance the process goes fast. You don’t worry about places to stay or meals because they get you rooms in the Ronald McDonald House or a hotel room with free meals at the Ronald McDonald House or they bring food to the hospital.

Children that don’t have insurance or those that are underinsured are more likely to die and to think any other way is pure ignorance. They may still get the same great care and in the end they are not withheld from care, but it will take longer.

We were lucky that our pediatrician had friends that worked at Children’s Mercy in Kansas City. We skipped the specialist and went straight to Children’s to see her friend from Med school.

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Hospitalized children who lack health insurance are more likely to die than those who have coverage, a large U.S. study finds.

Using data on more than 23 million child hospitalizations between 1988 and 2005, researchers found that children without insurance were 60 percent more likely to die than those with either private or government insurance coverage.

They estimate that lack of insurance directly contributed to nearly 17,000 children's deaths over 18 years.

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Your study did not look into why the outcomes were worse.

Kimmel has been a propaganda operative in the guise of a talk show host for many years, as was Colbert.

It was inauthentic. Kimmel has the money and insurance. You are correct it was the biggest spiel to kick off Roberts okaying the horrid Obamacare.