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.
was Gemma wearing a seat belt?
Picked up by Mark Steyn no less!
Am I to assume that the family did not have a comprehensive auto insurance policy at the time of the accident? If they were not at fault, the other party involved would have had auto insurance that would cover the injuries.
I will also make the assumption that it is MANDATORY to have auto insurance coverage where they live.
As usual, this whole story is a put on from beginning to end. You can always depend on a liberal to lie, always...
Can anyone say insurance fraud? With the money and assets listed in this report, it would lead one to believe that this family withheld vital information in order to qualify for SCHIPS. That is a federal crime and also unethical.
The Dems know that a lie is halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes.
Remember Winnifred Skinner, the septuagenarian woman who turned up at a Gore event in 2000 talking about how she had to walk alongside highways picking up aluminum cans to eat after paying for her prescription meds? After the MSM was lavishing attention on her, endlessly showing footage of her picking up cans and bottles, CNS News called her and interviewed her. Turns out she isn't in favor of the taxpayers paying for her medicine, she just wanted to earn the money herself. To that end, she turned down offers of help from relatives, and she refuses to file to receive food stamps even though she qualifies.
The real kicker is that she was asked to attend the Gore event and tell her story of can collecting by the United Auto Workers union, which pays her a pension of $129 per month.
BUMP
Did you read Mark Steyn’s mention of you over at NRO yesterday afternoon?
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MDAzYjY5OWVkMmQxZTJmNTZlNDNjZTlhOGU3NjNlZDA=
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Congratulations!!!
Re-post in order for a new week?
Just emailed your article to some friends and Michelle Malkin.
Probably the best post on the thread, even considering the excellent sleuthing that started it off.
“were passengers in the family SUV in December 2004 when it hit a patch of black ice and slammed into a tree.”
Ah Ha! The evil SUV attempts to kill another family! That does make it Bush’s fault!
DemocRATS give intellectual dishonesty a bad name.
Nicely done.
I notice that 104 S. Collington is not the Frost's "principal residence" -- at least as listed on the public property record online for Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, Baltimore City.
This could be an error in the record; but it makes me wonder if they might have another house that is their "principal residence."
104 S. Collington, described as "one bath" on zillow, would be a little cramped for a family of that size today (though I'm sure many of us here on FR grew up in one-bathroom homes!).
This article is linked at the Michigan Republican party blog site.
I received it in the daily email “articles of interest”.
I’d say its going to get out.
I just can’t believe the Democrats would use a child to lie to us for their own advantage.
From the February 2005 edition of "Butchers Hill: Baltimore's Friendliest Neighborhood" newsletter:
THE FROST KIDS' FUND
Two children in the Frost family of S. Collington Ave., Graeme and Gemma, were seriously injured in early December when the car they were riding in slid on glare ice into a tree. They spent three weeks in the Pediatric Intensive Care at Sinai Hospital and are now undergoing reconstructive surgery, and rehabilitation and therapy at the Kennedy Krieger Institute.
A fund has been set up for those who would like to contribute to help defray the family's expenses. These funds will be available to the family for medical costs and other needs they will face as they cope with their ordeal. Deposits are anonymous. Checks may be made out to The Frost Kids' Fund and sent to:
Bank of America NA
Frost Kids' Fund
Attn: Doug Woodward
100 S. Charles St.
MD4-325-09-02
Baltimore Md. 21201A very special thanks from Bonnie and Halsey Frost to neighbors past and present who have done so much to help, in so many ways, over the past weeks. You truly make our neighborhood special and unique.
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