re: Well Kimmel dragged his son out tonight

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So I was about to go to bed, but then saw this at the top of my YouTube feed and figured it would interest the Poliboard: LINK

And while to be honest I don’t know shite about the CHIP program and Kimmel may be right about it, I don’t approve of him standing on top of his kid to promote this. Maybe Jimmy is right, and I think he is coming from a place of genuine heart, but he should not use his kid to promote this. This is whoring out your kid, and I disapprove of it in every case I can think of.

Just stop Jimmy. I don’t think he is deliberately being malicious here, but 10 years ago, Kimmel would tar and feather anyone who did this. He got his name as a Roast comedian, and it’s sad a former idol of mine has gone down to this level.

I’m sure Shapiro will have something to say about this tomorrow given that his daughter has the same condition and he never mentioned it before Kimmel did. I really hope Jimmy has the balls to invite him on, even though I’m sure he won’t.

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I like Kimmel a lot, but I can't stand any of these emotional appeals in healthcare that end up resulting in shitty legislation and misplaced priorities. I say that knowing that CHIP is probably effective public healthcare spending as well given the age of the recipients.

But Americans' refusal to deal with economic realities in healthcare, specifically that rationing healthcare in some form is pretty much the only way to stop the obscene growth in expenditures, is infuriating.

We spend the third-most of any country in the world in public healthcare expenditures per capita. Yes, you read that right - outside of Norway and Switzerland, we have the highest public healthcare expenditures per person of any country in the world (disregarding private expenditures, in which we are far and away #1), and we don't even have a true public system or anything close to that. It's a cultural problem for us, not a spending problem.