I too thought that might be the case, but didn't see any evidence for it in that particular record.
The elder Frosts could “gift” a lot of money every year to a family of 6. Would that money have to be reported on the SCHIP forms?
According to Rush today (if I understood him correctly), the SCHIP program as administered by Maryland requires almost no financial documentation from applicants!
(I hope I'm wrong on that last point -- someone please correct me if I am!)
Couple things seem suspicious of it being the elder Frost who bought the property in 1990:
(1) The property was bought before the younger Frosts were married.
(2) the middle name “Halsey” isn’t on the 1990 record but it seems to be on every other identification of the younger Halsey, including his current ownership of the property.
I’m an equal opportunity skeptic of both parties but this story is amazing. If I was a partisan Democrat, I’d want to wring Nancy Pelosi’s neck (or whoever brought this family forward). Even the initial reporting on it plants some “I wonders” in your mind - that people with $45,000 income and 4 children aren’t trying harder to have a job with insurance and make more money. But then you’re just left wondering if the elder Frosts aren’t transferring tens of thousand a year to the younger Frosts and in other ways subsidizing the youngers since they’ve been married and in effect, the youngers have a lifestyle equal to people that John Edwards calls “the wealthy.”
What protection do the taxpayers have against people gaming this program?