Did I Really Start A Firestorm in Washington?

Myself and Multiple links ^ | 10-09-07 | ICWHATUDO

[TigersEye]

So they could have insured those two children for under $1,000 per year? That’s the cost of premium cable TV and I bet they’ve got that.

[tobyhill]

Here’s the family plan with BCBS in Baltimore, Maryland. Mother 40, Father 40, male child 12, female child 15, $1200 deductible, $30 co pays = $275 a month or $3300 a year. Cost of a single broken arm = minimum $7500.

If the parents are over 50 the plan jumps to approx. $412 a month.

http://www.ehealthinsurance.com/ehi/Census.fs

[tobyhill]

sorry, bad link

http://www.ehealthinsurance.com/

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I don’t know how to Cut and Paste...could you repeat that please!!!!

Taking your statement at face value:

What country!

A postman’s family living in [a] dump in Daly City can afford to donate $250,000 to Democratic candidates, but an independent busi[ness]man whose wife works for a medical publisher (!) cannot afford health insurance!

Maybe one of the charities Hillary! can give her funny money donations to is this not-so-Paw family!

[DocRock]

Anyone see a pattern? Clinton, Gore and Kerry all used phony human props to cite their position on health care insurance.

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During John Kerry's nomination acceptance speech during the 2004 DNC, he trotted out his health insurance "poster child", Mary Ann Knowles. Kerry stated that she had to "keep working day after day right through her chemotherapy, no matter how sick she felt, because she was terrified of losing her family's health insurance". In reality, she had excellent coverage with 26 weeks of paid disability leave, but she chose to work through most of her treatment because her husband was unemployed.

Video of Kerry's Speech

Links to story on FR

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Al Gore tried this same tactic in 2000 with Winifred Skinner.

Al Gore said, "It brings tears to your eyes. Here's this adorable, elderly woman out in Iowa who's so sick and so poor, that in order to pay for medicines she needs to stay alive, she has to scavenge in a local dump yard for cast-off tin cans."

"She gets a small pension," he said. "But in order to pay for her prescription drug benefits she has to go out seven days a week, several hours a day, picking up cans."

It turns out, as the statement was rectified, Mrs. Skinner goes out zero days a week, for zero hours a day, and that she was only speaking "in the name of" people she assumes must do this.

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In 1994, Hillary Clinton used Kathy Bush when citing her case as an example of the high cost of medical care.

Later, investigators found the mother guilty of intentionally making Jennifer, her daughter, sick and forcing her to undergo more than 40 needless surgeries, in what prosecutors called a case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy.

“Forty-two-year old Kathy Bush had been charged with aggravated child abuse and fraud for bilking thousands of dollars from the State of Florida for medical expenses incurred by her daughter, Jennifer. The mother faces up to 45 years in prison.”

Link

[visualops]

Holy cow them’s some impressive numbers!

[Suzy Quzy]

THANK YOU!! I was NOT kidding!

[kalee]

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[Sir Gawain]

The commenters on that thread over at ThinkProgress are more interested in arguing about religion than the topic at hand. You can tell when they admit defeat to themselves. They “lose interest” in the topic.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Suzy Quzy]

What country! A postman’s family living in [a] dump in Daly City can afford to donate $250,000 to Democratic candidates, but an independent busi[ness]man whose wife works for a medical publisher (!) cannot afford health insurance!

OMG!! THANKS!! how do I do Italics????? :)

[mojo114]

Do not be intimitated this is not about icwhaudo the person, this is about intimidation so no one like you will speak out. Do not worry they are doing the same thing with Rush, Hannity, Levine and before them Imus. It is just a part of shutting up the people. Be Proud and Stand Tall. By the way where is Doug from Upland?

[PGalt]

Thank you, icwhatudo!

Truth, freedom, life.

BUMP-TO-THE-TOP!

[doug from upland]

I’m here. I returned yesterday from enemy territory -— San Francisco. I did a report yesterday about the Blue Angels.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

All right, You asked for it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a1e6b7134bf.htm

Everything you need to know about formatting in Free Republic, but really, do buy the “Book”. Better, take the course, you’ll meet nice people like yourself and find a much better teacher. Most people learn better in social settings.

Have fun!

[Palladin]

Great expose of this rich family pretending to be poor. Looks like they know the ropes on getting all the freebies out there for their kids. “Moochers”, we used to call people like that.

[Palladin]

The kid may lose his scholarship when the administrators of the private school learn about all the family assets. You have to fill out lengthy and very detailed financial aid forms for those scholarships. I wonder if the Frosts fudged a little when listing their incomes and assets?

I wonder if they declare everything on their IRS forms, which usually have to be presented along with the scholarship FAF. HMMMMMM.....

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You show off!

[mojo114]

Whew worried alittle.

[doug from upland]

I knew if I were not on FR for a few days, people would wonder if Hillary had performed a little damage control. :)