Posted on 10/08/2007 3:28:15 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
The media piled on when President Bush used his veto pen on this children's health insurance bill. They tried to drop the absolute moral authority bomb on it big time and paint him as not caring about children. Now it looks like a little backfire is on the horizon.
On September 29th, 12 year old Graeme Frost of Maryland got to do the Democrats’ radio address, in which he told his story of how he and his sister were seriously injured in a car accident, and if it hadn’t been for SCHIP, they wouldn’t be here today. The Baltimore Sun did a story on the family, in which it stated the family couldn’t get health insurance through their work.
"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."
There were many others in the media that swallowed the story whole with its hook. All of them were missing greatly in one major thing, facts.
Freerepublic's icwhatudo, managed to find plenty of missing facts using google:
"First, Mr. Halsey Frost, Graeme’s father, owns his own woodworking design studio, Frostworks, so his claim that he can’t get health insurance through work is shockingly deceptive. He chooses not to get health care for his family. Second, Graeme and his sister Gemma attend the very exclusive Park School, which has a tuition of $20,000 a year, per child. Third, they live in a 3,000+ square foot home in a neighborhood with smaller homes that are selling for at least $400,000. "
Dan Collins concludes:
"I’m glad little Graham and his family were able to get help, and I hope he reaches full rehabilitation. But perhaps the Democrats ought to take more care in the spokespeople they choose, if they wish to tug at our heartstrings."
Then again, as Mark Steyn says:
"But who needs facts when you've got the human-interest angle sewn up?"
Roundup of blogosphere reactions at Stop The ACLU
So at worst, the Frosts are tax-evaders who are not responsible enough to buy health insurance.
At best, they are irresponsible freeloaders dependent on their parents. (who are not responsible enough to buy health insurance)
Is this the best the democrats could trot out to promote SCHIP? What about the REAL poor people?
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minimum Bodily Injury Liability coverage of $20,000 per injured person up to a total of $40,000 per accident,
Yes, even with this, after reading the extent of their injuries,
http://www.kennedykrieger.org/kki_touch_article.jsp?pid=4884
Gemma was sitting right where the car struck the tree and sustained an open skull fracture, shattering her left eye orbit, leaving the eye swollen shut. Doctors used a bolt to monitor and relieve intracranial pressure that was causing her brain to appear “cloudy” on CT scans. She remained in a coma for three weeks. Graeme, sitting right behind her, was injured when his head struck a window with such force that the glass broke. He developed bleeding in several ventricles in his brain and remained in a coma for several days.
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they didn’t stand a chance of paying much of that bill out of pocket.
We have useful idiots. Than we have useless idiots. Like the woman who wrote this article.
She has a 75k/year job and health benefits. If they had to hire somebody like me with talent they would have to pay four times the amount. That's why I'm not a journalist. I'm a Capitalist Pig.
JB: Just as an FYI, Black Bitch is a reformed smoker who quit smoking and now is gleeful that the stinky smelly smokers have to fork over money and he doesn’t have to.
“...minimum Bodily Injury Liability coverage of $20,000 per injured person up to a total of $40,000 per accident,...”
Even those amounts might not have been available to the family. Those amounts are liability insurance - if it had been a multi-car accident, the insurance carrier of the driver held at fault would have paid those amounts.
I don’t know whether the insurance company would be required to pay its own policyholder the liability amount for bodily injury if the driver/policyholder were not held at fault, or even if he were.
In any event, you’re right - $20,000 per person isn’t going to cover much in a case like this.
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“...minimum Bodily Injury Liability coverage of $20,000 per injured person up to a total of $40,000 per accident,...”
Even those amounts might not have been available to the family. Those amounts are liability insurance - if it had been a multi-car accident, the insurance carrier of the driver held at fault would have paid those amounts.
I don’t know whether the insurance company would be required to pay its own policyholder the liability amount for bodily injury if the driver/policyholder were not held at fault, or even if he were.
In any event, you’re right - $20,000 per person isn’t going to cover much in a case like this.
sitetest
Evidently..
What that all about? Somebody ask you to quit smoking today so you needed to vent on me personally?
According to the "Weather Underground" archive, the last measurable precipitation at the Baltimore airport prior to 04 Dec 04 was a half-inch of rain on 01 Dec 2004, with the temperature for the next three days oscillating between roughly 30F and 50F, averaging above freezing.
I'd bet more than one beer that the folks at the weather office at the Baltimore Airport keep pretty accurate records.
I'll concede it's possible the accident occurred early in the morning, with frost on the road, but that would pretty much require that they were just about the first vehicle out in the morning on that road that day.
Or it could be that whoever was driving wasn't paying attention and missed a turn and claimed "black ice" to assuage their guilt over nearly killing two of their kids.
A-little-more-background-on-the-car-crash ping.
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No, the Yankees lost and the Cowboys were on their way to a loss and I was in a pissy mood. You just happened to be there.
I didn’t do anything except sit on the couch and drink beer and watch football and baseball. Give icwhatudo the props.
Dont mind Eric, he’s harmless.
Ducks and runs for cover. LOL
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