Zillows value of their house:
http://www.zillow.com/HomeDetails.htm?zprop=36428509
Bonnie and Halsey Frost know the price of health insurance. Their 12-year-old son, Graeme, and his 9-year-old sister, Gemma, were severely injured in a car accident three years ago.
“I was driving and my car hit black ice and I lost control of it and I slammed into a tree. Gemma hit the tree and Graeme hit a window,” Bonnie said.
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More than 100,000 Maryland children are covered under the federal program, according to state health officials. They estimate that the program will require an infusion of roughly $160 million in federal funds over the next five years - with the state also contributing dollars of its own - to continue providing coverage to those families. Additional funds would also provide health coverage to an additional 42,000 children in Maryland.
Maryland provides health coverage under SCHIP to families of four with annual household income of up to 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or roughly $60,000 a year, Folkemer said. The reauthorization bill would not allow the state to provide coverage to families with a greater income, but the state could recruit more families with incomes below that level, he said.
The Frost family has a combined annual income of about $45,000, said Bonnie Frost. She and her husband have priced private health insurance, but they say it would cost them more per month than their mortgage - about $1,200 a month. Neither parent has health insurance through work.
“There should never be a moment when you have to ask, ‘Do you have health insurance?’” said Halsey Frost, who along with his wife is an advocate for a national health care plan that would cover everyone, no matter the age or income bracket.
“I am incredibly thankful,” said Frost, who works full time for a medical publishing firm. Her husband, Halsey, is a full-time woodworker. “Without the [SCHIP] program, we would be in another place emotionally and financially. I can’t imagine how we would have managed.”
Said Halsey Frost: “The medical tabs from the accident would have fallen on us. We would have lost our house.”
“We might go back to Washington to advocate against Bush’s veto,” said Bonnie Frost.
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Graeme, a seventh-grader at the Park School, has a message for the president.
“If I could speak to him, I would say, ‘You have to sign this bill,’” he told reporters yesterday during his first visit to the Capitol. “I’m guessing he wants this money for Iraq. Our future isn’t in Iraq. It’s here.”
It appears that this company is a CABINET MAKING COMPANY.......so rather than lease out his building to Diversified, Mr. Frost actually owns Diversified too.
LOL — this is incredible.
icwhatudo: Good research, thanks.
nutmeg: For your ping list?
Poor? Poor? Have they, the Rats and the media have no shame in begging of he rest of us?
Sure hope he isn't paying for that private school through the corporation. The IRS might not approve.
We know damn well no elected Republican or the AWOL RNC will make a peep about this Phony Impoverished Family!
We know damn well no elected Republican or the AWOL RNC will make a peep about this Phony Impoverished Family!
This is all great. Unfortunately it will never see the light of day as far as the MSM goes.
Comments needed on this article:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.democrats29sep29,0,1093633.story
Another lie by a democrat? Who da thunk it?
How is this any different from the different from the Left's use of "Fake Soldiers" in their war against American? It isn't.
The fact that Americans are too dumb to see the hypocrisy does not bode well for the future of th USA. It does speak volumes at the "integrity" of the Democrat Party.
Goodbye USA... It was so good knowing you.
One of the few cases where I believe that the IRS has a “duty” to take a peek into this family’s finances.... Something smells - on so many levels.
Note that this "poor" child without health insurance was not denied very high quality and specialized health care because he didn't have health insurance. If his parents were truly indigent the entire bill would have been written off by the hospital. In places like Canada and the UK with "free" health care I seriously doubt this kid would be alive as the level of care he received is not readily available.
If these children were injured in a traffic accident where another vehicle were involved could at least part of their medical bill also have been picked up under the bodily injury provisions that are a mandatory part of auto insurance in most states?
IIRC, the minimum first party insurance benefits for injuries sustained in an automobile accident is $22,500 per person, and many people have more than the minimum.
What was really EVIL about the SCHIP program was that the entitlement was GUARANTEE FUNDED!!!
IOW
IF cigarette tax revenue was not enough, the law required the federal government to cut OTHER programs to make up the shortfalls.
GWBush should have had a MAJOR veto program, he should have made a BIG deal about being responsible.
BTT.
I smell unreported income.
I have been a bookkeeper for small business owners for over 30 years. I know there is a certain amount of skimming, most of which I never saw, there fore I could not advise on not doing it.
In order to pay that kind of school tuition, pay mortgages, buy groceries, pay utilities, there is no way it can be done on a gross income of $45,000 a year. Even if the income is misstated, and it is a net income of $45,000, once you pay out $40,000 for tuition, how in the dickens does a family live on $5000 a year????
This is a ripe situation for the Republicans to disect the banks accounts and life style of this couple and their kids and expose them loudly for the liars they are.
The Demorats just get dumber and dumber. The Republican candidates need to use that ammunition and soon.