Posted on 10/06/2007 10:42:57 PM PDT by icwhatudo
Graeme Frost, who gave the democrat rebuttal to George Bush’s reasons for vetoing the SCHIP Bill, is a middle school student at the exclusive$20,000 per year Park School in Baltimore, MD.
Graeme was in a severe car accident three years ago, and received care paid for by the government program known as SCHIP-(State Children's Health Insurance Program)
"I was in a coma for a week and couldn't eat or stand up or even talk. My sister was even worse," Graeme wrote. "My parents work really hard and always make sure my sister and I have everything we need, but we can't afford private health insurance."
His sister Gemma, also severely injured in the accident, attended the same school prior to the accident meaning the family was able to come up with nearly $40,000 per year for tuition for these 2 grade schoolers. Confirmation both attended Park found here using edit-"find on this page"-Gemma. It will take you to an article in the schools newspaper about a fundraiser for Gemma class of 16, and Graeme class of 13.
Here are photos of the school's 44,000 square foot Wyman Arts Center: two galleries, an outdoor ampitheater, Meyerhoff Theater, Macks-Fidler Black Box Theater, practice rooms, rehearsal space, and ceramics, 3-D sculpture, woodworking, jewelry, painting, photography, digital graphics studios, recording studio, and keyboard lab.
In a Baltimore Sun article the family claims to be raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. "Bonnie Frost works for a medical publishing firm; her husband, Halsey, is a woodworker. They are raising their four children on combined income of about $45,000 a year. Neither gets health insurance through work."
What the article does not mention is that Halsey Frost has owned his own company "Frostworks",since this marriage announcement in the NY Times in 1992 so he chooses to not give himself insurance. He also employed his wife as "bookkeeper and operations management" prior to her recent 2007 hire at the "medical publishing firm". As her employer, he apparently denied her health insurance as well.
His company, Frostworks, is located at 3701 E BALTIMORE ST. A building that was purchased for $160,000 in 1999. The buildings owner is listed as DIVERSIFIED INDUSTRIAL DESIGN CENTER, LLC whose mailing address is listed as 104 S Collington Ave which is the Frost's home. The commercial property he owns is also listed as the business address for another company called Reillys Designs which leads to the question of whether rental income is included in the above mentioned salary total
The current market value of their improved 3,040 SF home at 104 S Collington Ave is unknown but 113 S COLLINGTON AVE, also an end unit, sold for $485,000 this past March and it was only 2,060 SF. A photo taken in the family's kitchen shows what appears to be a recent remodeling job with granite counter tops and glass front cabinets
One has to wonder that if time and money can be found to remodel a home, send kids to exclusive private schools, purchase commercial property and run your own business... maybe money can be found for other things...maybe Dad should drop his woodworking hobby and get a real job that offers health insurance rather than making people like me (also with 4 kids in a 600sf smaller house and tuition $16,000 less per kid and no commercial property ownership) pay for it in my taxes.
They shell out more for private school than some families live on. No pity here. Homeschool-public school. Pick one & buy your own insurance.
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Maybe Bonnie should take up her crusade for health insurance with her EMPLOYER!
Bonnie Frost
In 2007, Bonnie joined the Kaufman-Wills Group as an associate conducting various market research projects, compiling competitive journal profiles, developing and maintaining databases, and helping to manage company operations. A graduate of Towson University, Bonnie’s previous work experience includes bookkeeping and operations management for Frostworks, Inc., as well as curriculum writing, admissions work, and teaching preschool and kindergarten at First English Lutheran Preschool in Baltimore.
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Fake, but accurate.
this IS the other America!
The poor kid only has ONE house...!
Cheers!
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The scary part is that most Americans will never know that the kid is a fake because they will never bother to check facts. As usual, the democRATs rely on the predictable ignorance of the masses to buttress their outrageous agenda.
Self imployed people typically avoid taxes by paying themselves low salaries. They instead rent from themselves, and do other things. Paying 40k in tuition means these folks probably have "real" discretionary incomes north of 200k/year.
This is a crime
Fraud
Excellent work!
You are starting to show up in the news:
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2007/10/poor-family-own.html
Frost’s mother, Bonnie, says, “You should explain to Graeme why you against expanding healthcare for kids, please don’t veto this bill.”
Among those lobbying for the program on Tuesday was Bonnie S. Frost of
Baltimore. Her daughter, Gemma, now 9, has been in the program for eight
years and received treatment for a traumatic brain injury after an auto
accident in 2004.
The money provided in the bill is $35 billion more than the current level
of spending and $30 billion more than Mr. Bush wanted.
To cover the cost, the bill relies on tobacco taxes, especially the
cigarette tax, which would be increased to $1 a pack, from the current 39
cents.
The bill would make the following changes in the children’s insurance
program:
¶Dental services would have to be covered. Mental illnesses would generally
be covered on a par with physical illnesses.
¶States could cover pregnant women with low incomes. The federal government
would reduce payments for coverage of parents and would gradually end
coverage of nonpregnant childless adults in the program.
¶Instead of directly providing coverage to children in low-income families,
states would have new incentives to subsidize premiums for private health
insurance offered by employers.
The bill stipulates that federal money cannot be used to provide health
benefits for illegal immigrants. But states could try to verify citizenship
by using Social Security numbers, without inspecting documents like birth
certificates and passports.
The compromise package would expand the $5 billion-a-year children’s health
insurance program by an average of $7 billion a year over the next five
years, for total funding of $60 billion over the period.
the measure would push children already
covered by private health insurance into publicly financed health care,
while creating an “entitlement” whose costs would ultimately outstrip the
money raised by the bill’s 61-cent increase in the federal tobacco tax.
it would move the nation toward “socialized
medicine,” ease access to Medicaid for illegal immigrants, and lavish
“pork-barrel” spending on a few lucky states and districts.
The bill’s fine print does raise indigent health-care reimbursements to
Tennessee and Hawaii, helps county-operated health facilities in
California’s Ventura and Merced counties, and boosts Michigan’s Medicaid
subsidies, a provision inserted by House Energy and Commerce Chairman John
D. Dingell (D-Mich.).
Rep. Rahm Emanuel (Ill.), chairman of the House
Democratic Caucus, contrasted Bush’s opposition to the bill with the
hundreds of billions of dollars the administration has sought to fund the
war in Iraq.
“It’s about the priorities, and the president has told us his priorities,”
Emanuel said.
“It’s no surprise the president finds himself isolated,” Emanuel said at a
Democratic event that included a Maryland mother who relied on SCHIP
coverage when two of her children were badly injured in a car wreck.
Eight Democrats opposed the bill. Some, from tobacco-growing districts,
object to raising the federal cigarette tax to $1 a pack, a 61-cent
increase. Some Hispanic members complained that the bill would make legal
immigrant children wait five years to qualify for SCHIP, but voted for it
anyway.
Under
the expansion proposal, states could seek federal waivers to steer funds to
some families earning at least triple the official poverty-level income,
provided the states showed progress enrolling the main target: children in
families earning up to double the poverty rate
legislation could qualify some New York
families of four making about $83,000 a year, or four times the poverty
level
Common sense tells you that if you are paying 40k to send a kid to school you are making some good money. I’d say more than 200K..AT 200K they would be using 1/5 of their income on school tuition . I doubt that .
I figured this one out; the combined income of the two kids is "about $45K a year if you don't count food, iPods and designer clothes. Maybe the other two are on scholarships from the Downtrodden Woodworkers of Amerika [AFL/CIO/Dem] or don't need school because they'll inherit daddy's two businesses.
Come to think of it, according to one of the links, momma went to college to become a receptionist at a cat hospital and dada claims to be saving money by stiffing his own family on insurance, education us SO overrated (/sarc).
Doesn't matter. The press reports what the Dems tell them to report.
PS: looking at their photo all I could think of was yogurt, granola, and organic vegitables with names you can’t pronounce.
Since the Baltimore Sun is a client where Bonnie works, I would say that was a conflict of interest and a biased ‘report’.
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* Baltimore Sun
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http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-insurance1.htm
Know Your State Laws
Remember that forty-seven states require that you purchase liability insurance. Liability insurance is what pays for bodily injury and property damage that you cause another driver. Fifteen states including Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey also require that you buy Personal Injury Protection (PIP). This coverage pays for your medical expenses and lost wages in the event of an auto accident. Your insurance minimum will most likely be determined by state law, but many people are encouraged to purchase more than is required.
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Fifteen states including Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey also require that you buy Personal Injury Protection (PIP). This coverage pays for your medical expenses and lost wages in the event of an auto accident.
Bonnie could have saved the money she used on that tattoo on her boob to pay for her children’s healthcare insurance! It’s not my responsibility to pay for her to raise her children. If she couldn’t afford them she shouldn’t have had them!
http://www.thenewsroom.com/details/768699/Health
And if the $45k a year is true then “Dad” should stop playing at his woodworking hobby and get a real job so he can support his family, rather than expecting the rest of us to manage his obiligations so he isn’t “forced” to give up his dream life of idleness...
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