The “Not So Poor” 12 Year Old Voice of SCHIP
Posted on October 7, 2007
The lefties and the media piled on when Bush used his veto pen on this one. They tried to drop the absolute moral authority bomb on it big time. Looks like a little backfire is on the horizon.
Kim Priestap does a great summary and roundup on this.
On September 29th, 12 year old Graeme Frost of Maryland got to do the Democrats’ radio address, in which he told his story of how he and his sister were seriously injured in a car accident, and if it hadn’t been for SCHIP, they wouldn’t be here today. So who is this 12 year old? The Baltimore Sun did a story on the family, in which it stated the family couldn’t get health insurance through their work. But the article left out quite a few important, and interesting, bits of information, which Freeper, icwhatudo, managed to find while googling:
First, Mr. Halsey Frost, Graeme’s father, owns his own woodworking design studio, Frostworks, so his claim that he can’t get health insurance through work is shockingly deceptive. He chooses not to get health care for his family. Second, Graeme and his sister Gemma attend the very exclusive Park School, which has a tuition of $20,000 a year, per child. Third, they live in a 3,000+ square foot home in a neighborhood with smaller homes that are selling for at least $400,000.
Yet, hardworking taxpayers who sacrifice many things such as expensive private schools and expensive houses in order to buy their own health care for their families are supposed to subsidize this family’s health insurance premiums.
Bad things happen to good people, and they cause financial problems and tough choices. But, if this is the face of the “needy” in America, then no-one is not needy. And, if everyone needs assistance from the federal government, so be it. But I don’t think I want to drive down the road where Bonnie Frost wants to take us - because at the end of it there are no free-born citizens, just a nation where everyone is a ward of the state.
This business of “affordable insurance†is socialistic. The Frosts found an “affordable†business building and an “affordable†3,000-square foot house and an “affordable†private school. Why couldn’t these yuppies afford to cover their own damned kids?
If business owners with half-million-dollar-plus homes and kids in expensive private schools now count as “working families,” does this mean they’ll get tax cuts?
“Morally unacceptable” is how the Dems are representing the president for vetoing SCHIP as they presented it (once again, as they waited until the last minute to present it to the president and even with their foreknowledge he would veto it in the form they presented).
However, it’s “morally acceptable” in THEIR eyes to cheat those who truly NEED the bill by parading a family who is far too wealthy to be receiving this care.
Who truly is risking the healthcare needed by the poor?
I’m glad little Graham and his family were able to get help, and I hope he reaches full rehabilitation. But perhaps the Democrats ought to take more care in the spokespeople they choose, if they wish to tug at our heartstrings.
Blue Crab Boulevard has a great roundup.…then gets snarky.
Also see Wake Up America
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If you do the math, the Park School costs $1667 a month (divided by 12, Divided by 9 its $2200) PER CHILD. They can afford that but not a $1200 insurance premium - even if that were true? It’s because they didn’t have to…they had SCHIP available since they could hide their income in his company. How else could you afford $3300(or $4400) per month and a $550k plus house on “only” 45K per year? Make the company pay for it and have the government subsidize the family by making them look “low income”
Have read that the the school only charges them $500 a year on tutition.
Also heard that they paid less than 60 thou or so for their home.
Might want to check on that before assuming otherwise.
here we go:
1) Graeme has a scholarship to a private school. The school costs $15K a year, but the family only pays $500 a year.
2) His sister Gemma attends another private school to help her with the brain injuries that occurred due to her accident. The school costs $23,000 a year, but the state pays the entire cost.
3) They bought their “lavish house†sixteen years ago for $55,000 at a time when the neighborhood was less than safe.
4) Last year, the Frosts made $45,000 combined. Over the past few years they have made no more than $50,000 combined.
5) The state of Maryland has found them eligible to participate in the CHIP program.
It doesn’t matter what the cost of their home was when they bought it, they have huuuuge equity now. And they should have health insurance. If you have kids, you take insurance no matter what the cost, and you budget from there… NO EXCUSES!!!
What is so wrong with a National Health Care plan? Privatizing health care is the problem. I am middle class and if I didn’t have health care through my employer and someone in my family of four were to get very sick or have an accident, the medical bills would ruin us. I think a doctor should be in charge of your care, not some insurance company who is only in the business to make a profit. Last I checked, I didn’t live in the “United Corportations of America”.