WATCH: Kimmel Sarcastically ‘Apologizes’ For Saying Children Should Have Health Care

One week after making his emotionally overwrought appeal to save Obamacare by citing the open-heart surgery of his infant son, Jimmy Kimmel returned to his show to offer a mock apology for having done so. Kimmel had been roundly criticized by many, including Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro, who wrote a scathing column noting that his daughter had gone through a virtually identical surgery at the same hospital and even with the same surgeon before pointing out that Kimmel had been smart enough to purchase health insurance before his son’s birth. Shapiro followed up with a segment on his podcast in which he illuminated why Kimmel’s espousal of government-controlled health insurance was wrong, noting that the American people are incredibly generous and that’s how the system should work:

Children’s Hospital is very lucky in that Children’s has enormous sums of giving. People give tons of money to Children’s Hospital. I’m sure Jimmy Kimmel will too. We’ve given charity to Children’s Hospital. There’s a whole wall, an entire wall in Children’s Hospital, that is just names of celebrities who have given money to Children’s Hospital to help support Children’s Hospital.