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.”
“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.”
Man, I know I sure talked like this when I was in seventh grade! (not)
This is the real value of "the children" for the DemoCRAT party...irrelevant in the womb, political pawns once outside of the womb.
“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.
Did Bonnie have auto insurance?
There are more questions to be answered...
1) Did they not have auto insurance?
2)Since they DID have CHIP, did it not cover the expenses?
3)If so why the need to fund raisers in the community?
And dont they prove that it does not need to be expanded since they already had the coverage?
Thank you for posting all of this information regarding the latest RAT scam to push socialized health care. What I see is that the boy and his sister were covered by the SCHIP program in existence so why is this story pitched as a criticism of the program rather than as support for a program that is working? How much money have they received to date from the SCHIP program and how long is it expected to continue? Also, I see no mention of the social security payments that are in all probability now going to the disabled children. And maybe their parents as well since they are now care takers of disabled children. A full disclosure by these people of all of the social programs they and there children are now or have been benefiting from is in order. Further, I find this couple just plain pitiful character wise. They have bought into the cradle to grave socialist mind set. They will not need to worry about reeducation camps if their socialist side gets control of our Republic. We are seeing the future if the RATS prevail in pushing their socialist agendas.
““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.”
No seat belts, no surprise.
We do not live extravagantly. We own a solid, red-brick 1952 rambler of 1300 ft2 that we are renovating little by little, which is located in a old center-city neighborhood. I have a BMW (a 1984 318i, 200,000 miles±) and she drives our Toyota (a 1995 4Runner, 195,000± miles), both paid for, with full-coverage insurance (a necessity in a state where the roads are full of unlicensed, unisured illegal alien drivers.) We have no dogs, no Tivo, no boat, and no plasma TV. We live frugally.
And we still can't afford health insurance.
Something's wrong. I'm not saying that Hillary is right, and I'm not claiming that the Frost family deserves government-sponsored health care — but when a hardworking, frugal middle-class family such as we cannot find affordable health insurance, something is wrong.
You have to wonder where this fellow has been looking for health insurance except from your's and mine pocket???
$1200@month, which is way out of proportion, however, is just slightly above the tuition for Gemma's PRIVATE schrool. Can you spell grifters!!!