Jimmy Kimmel thanked the doctors who saved his life on his sons 5th Birthday

Five years after Jimmy Kimmel opened up about the terrible crisis his son Billy endured hours after he was born, the host celebrated his boy’s Birthday and the doctors who helped him see him the next day.

 It is the Birthday of his youngest child,  Billy Kimmel. It’s also the day Jimmy, 54, reflects on the medical professionals who helped Billy and countless other children get their start in life. 

Happy 5th Birthday to our little trickster for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel Live! A few candles sit in front of a shortbread cake with a picture of her son on her Instagram on Thursday.

An ultrasound showed that Billy was born with a heart defect in which the pulmonary valve was completely blocked, and there was a hole in the wall between the left and right sides of the heart. Billy had open-heart surgery at Los Angeles Children’s Hospital three days later. 

Jimmy took advantage of this moment to criticize the state of health care in America. 

Kimmel said We were grown to acknowledge that we live in the largest country in the world. Still, until a few years ago, millions of us did not have a permit for health insurance at all.

“Before 2014, if you were born with congenital heart disease, like my son, it was a good opportunity you could never get health insurance because you already had the illness. So you were born with a pre-existing condition. And suppose your parents do not have health insurance. In that case, you may not live long enough to be rejected because of a pre-existing medical condition. 

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