Yes, that'ss an important point. I'm not sure it's getting "lost in the shuffle," however.
Michelle Malkin and others have made prominent mention of the need for asset-testing.
The Bush administration should not be giving states like Maryland SCHIP "waivers," whereby those state bureaucrats get away with handing out federal taxpayer $$$ to people who live comfortably.
But I find it telling that the "scholarship" story keeps shifting.
Note, the Frosts and the DBM are not longer using the word, "scholarship" -- the Dem-scripted word is now "financial aid"). This smells ... like something rotten.
“Financial aid” is the phrase used on the school’s website. They note that it’s means based, and that it can cover students up to $160,000 parental income.
“Financial aid” is a pretty standard term for both colleges and private schools. Packages can include scholarships, loans, tuition waivers, etc. The term “scholarship” usually applies to a specific funding program which has specific criteria for eligibility, and many schools have a whole array of such “scholarships” (e.g. sometimes named and funded in memory of a student who died), which form part of some students’ financial aid packages. I don’t see anything suspicious in the use of the term “financial aid”.
The school’s website uses the term “financial assistance”, notes that admissions are need-blind with financial assistance awards determined separately, and says 18% of students (25% if faculty children are included) receive financial assistance ranging from $1000 to full tuition.
http://www.parkschool.net/admission/index.cfm?type=list&objectid=232 The whole affair is likely to get ugly, since any private school has a lot of good reasons for not making details of individual students’ financial aid packages public, and this one is going to be under a lot of pressure to do just that.
“Michelle Malkin and others have made prominent mention of the need for asset-testing.”
YES! Believe me, that’s what’s wrong with all this: the Frosts have done nothing wrong. Taken advantage of, bled the system, maybe, but within the law. Rather the way the Clintons operate, you might say, except for that last part...
I have heretofore not even mentioned that there is ‘emergency’ medicaid certification available and hospital workers are there to do it. I don’t begrudge anyone taking advantage of that in an emergent situation.
But we’re looking at four years after the fact.