Nice work. One shot, one kill.
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.
And the IRS has a service called the "financial status audit" (a.k.a., the "lifestyle audit") just for such people.
Bonnie, the mother was driving according to some earlier post. Now you’ve brought up another important point, SUV, Democrats shouldn’t drive gas guzzlers, it’s un-ethical. She’s driving too fast for road conditions too, blaming it on ‘black ice’ is a poor excuse for losing control of your vehicle.
I love to watch stuff like this spread across the blogs.
I was following the dan rather thread that night, watching Freepers do their thing. It was exciting to see it take off.
Hopefully this fraud will get attention.
Its important for everyone to note something else that is escaping notice. It was Pelosi and Reid behind this. Once again they stepped in it.
If you suspect or know of an individual or company that is not complying with the tax laws
Yes, let’s hope this story travels far and wide tomorrow across talk radio and the blogosphere.
Yes!!! This is exactly why Bush vetoed the INCREASE in spending. Bush didn't "gut the program". According to the story these poor 20K per year private school waifs already have their care paid for. It's outrage that other people have to pay MORE out of pocket for these people to maintain their artistic lifestyles. And BTW, yes, their car insurance should have helped out somewhat.
I tried to explain to every stupid liberal I encountered on the blogs that President Bush and the GOP lawmakers are NOT opposed to healthcare for the wee little chilrun.
They can spend like drunken sailors as well as any liberal Dem and they can prove it with the Medicare Part D program.
They are opposed to the Trojan Horse attempt to use the chilrun as pawns to advance Socialized Healthcare.
Bush and the GOP would sign a modest expansion of the program tomorrow.
Bump for Sunday night
This is a God thing. The Author of Truth reigns! Everything (i.e. lies) that these two try to hide will become known!
You’re jumping to a lot of conclusions here. Most private schools in that price range have a lot of students on partial and full scholarships. I went to this sort of school in the Washington DC area, and there was one family (white) of 4 sisters who were all on full scholarship. Anybody assuming that their mother was making enough money to fork over $80,000 a year (in today’s dollars) in tuition would have been way, way, way off. Clearly this family isn’t dirt-poor, but it’s possible that they couldn’t afford an insurance policy with high enough limits to cover the girl’s extensive medical bills, since the costs for a very small employer are little different than just going out and buying an individual policies. I don’t think government programs are the right answer, but we should make sure and get our facts accurate before arguing against such programs, or no one will take our arguments seriously.
Nice work. One shot, one kill.
Zillow has has the propety at $360,000. With some homes selling for like you said, over $400k. It’s not a bad area, close to Baltimore’s Inner Harbor.
It's not THAT expensive. I'm as small a business as you can get: 1 employee...me.
I just switched policies this month. $248/mo for a full policy, Blue Cross. It's doable if one wants to.
I think many people aren’t able to get one that low, that really covers up to the high amounts that a major brain trauma costs, and if anyone in the family has any pre-existing chronic conditions, the sky’s the limit. As of 2-3 years ago, my very large employer was paying $6000 per year per employee. Granted we have a choice of excellent plans, and I’m pretty sure that figure is the average per employee including dependents. But I doubt more than half our employees have a spouse and 2 children on their plans — many are young and/or otherwise single, many are married with no children yet, many have spouses who work and have their own coverage, and many have children who are grown and no longer on their parents’ policies.
18./7/5 2,534,000 Frost, A C 11 Sunset Avenue 1909 2007
Thanks for the ping!
You’re wlecome and great job on alerting the media/IRS. Last night I sent off e-mails to Prager, Medved, and Hewitt. Don’t know if anything will come of it.
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