Mitch McConnell Was Hospitalized. Here’s Why You Don’t Have to Care.

By Nicole Tate-Alvarez | National Voice | Collins The Brand

CNN reports Sen. Mitch McConnell was admitted to the hospital, and his office has not disclosed why.

So yea.

That is his business. Medical privacy is real. Nobody needs his chart, his diagnosis, or some dramatic bedside update. But let’s not act like the public owes Mitch McConnell a river of sympathy without remembering what he spent his career doing to everybody else.

This is the same Mitch McConnell who opposed the Affordable Care Act, a law that helped millions of Americans access health care while costs were, and still are, completely out of control.

This is the same McConnell who helped protect Republican power at every turn, blocked President Barack Obama’s judicial nominees, supported the political machine that helped Donald Trump rise, and backed that “Big Beautiful Bill” bullshit that reminded working people, once again, how little some leaders care about their actual lives.

Now he is 84, hospitalized, and undoubtedly receiving the kind of exceptional medical care too many Americans are denied, delayed, priced out of, or forced to beg for.

That is the story.

Not his hospital room. Not the carefully worded statement. Not the sudden demand that everybody be gentle.

No one has to celebrate suffering. But nobody has to forget his record either.

His health may be private.

His hypocrisy is public.