Late Night Humor

I can't stand watching the news but I will read it online and the newspaper. I get the Sunday paper (ok, also for the coupons) and update myself with what's going on locally and the world. National news was that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Affordable Care Act. I laugh at the late night humor usually on the opinion but I had an issue with Jimmy.

Let Jimmy Laugh

Laugh as you're neither unemployed or underemployed 

Laugh as you're the rich employee on TV

With perks and benefits wherever you go.

Laugh that "we could drink, smoke, jump mini-bikes off bridges

Or play chainsaw tag if we want to."

Laugh that "if we get hurt, it's not our problem.

It's America's problem...."

For many years, for many people

Full time jobs with benefits like healthcare

Stayed out of reach. Many people made ends meet

By working two or even three part-time jobs

And couldn't afford to buy themselves

Or their family basic healthcare.

Yet so easily go bankrupt if they 

Or a loved one became seriously sick.

They needed some healthcare

And the Affordable Care Act provided that.

Be glad for your TV gig and keep up your ratings

So you can laugh and make frivolous health things

That other industrialized countries provide for their denizens.

Your example of people doing stupid things

Mock the people who need medical coverage for serious conditions.

So you can laugh until you're no longer on TV,

broke or just working paycheck to paycheck -

Don't get sick if you have no medical insurance

Then you'd have to laugh at yourself!

Copyrighted 2015 Suzzette Dawes

Source: Kimmel, Jimmy. "Late Night Humor." Sun-Sentinel. 28 June 2015. 18A. Print.