“Parents of children with cancer, diabetes, and heart problems are about to get letters saying their coverage could be cut off … Merry Christmas, right?”
Jimmy Kimmel on Monday night made a tearful plea to lawmakers to secure funding for CHIP.
The Children’s Health Insurance Program covers 9 million children whose families would struggle to pay for healthcare without it.
Kimmel’s son Billy has a heart condition that has required several surgeries.
CHIP’s funding expired while politicians were finalizing details of a tax bill.
Jimmy Kimmel took his 7-month-old son on the air Monday night to make a tearful plea to Congress to save the Children’s Health Insurance Program, a healthcare program that covers 9 million children in the US.
Kimmel appeared alongside his son Billy after a weeklong break from his show, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Billy was born with tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia, a rare defect that required open-heart surgery just hours after his birth.
Tech: Jimmy Kimmel makes tearful plea alongside 7-month-old son for Congress to save child healthcare program
