Meet the New Frosts, Same as the Old Frosts-New SChip Family Attacked

[RamboLiberal]

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With two properties and three cars the Frost family’s personal wealth and relative need for free health insurance was the subject of much controversy. I doubt similar questions will be raised about Dara and Brian Wilkerson. She’s a waitress, and he works at the restaurant doing minor repairs and barbacking. Their employer does not provide health insurance, they rent, drive one beat-up car, and have a combined income of $34,000. On the conference call, Brian piped up to add “I have $57 in my checking account if that helps.” Combine that pressing economic need with Tampa Bay’s Most Photogenic and Heartbreakingly Unhealthy Baby™ and maybe this time congressional Democrats have found the right S-CHIP spokesfamily.

Except they haven’t. While the debate around the Frost family at least initially centered around their relative wealth, the issue really at hand is one of bad behavior. While USAction and a labyrinthine maze of leftist activist groups prepare to rally around images of Tampa Bay’s Most Photogenic Baby holding up a crayon sign that says “Don’t Veto Me,” Dara and Brian Wilkerson are real poster children — for irresponsible decisions.

On the conference call, Dara admitted to me that she and Brian had been talking about having children since before they were married. She further admitted that after they were married she voluntarily left a job at a country club that had good health insurance, because the situation was “unmanageable.” From there she took a job at a restaurant with no health insurance, and the couple went on to have a baby anyway, presuming that others would pay for it and certainly long before they knew their daughter would have heart defect that probably cost the gross national product of Burkina Faso to fix. But not knowing about future health problems is the reason we have insurance in the first place.

Now, pause for a second. Are you reading this at your computer at work, in a job that you don’t particularly care for or even downright detest because you have a spouse and child that depend on you? You wouldn’t be the first or last person to make that choice.

For Dara and Brian Wilkerson, the fact that they don’t have health insurance is less about falling through the cracks than the decisions they’ve made. We know that Dara is at least capable of getting a job with insurance — so why does she not have one now? Even if it is difficult insure her child’s pre-existing condition, what about her and her husband’s health? Perhaps it’s rude to ask that question, but I think it’s rude to accept huge amounts of public assistance and then express gratitude by asking taxpayers to extend a Children’s health program to cover college-age kids who come from households making more than $80,000 a year.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Zjk4ZjA2NDIxNmEzNGM4YTZmNTBjODY3NmI5OGQ3NjU=

Sick bastards. Graphic on Malkin's page:

[angstlessk]

1. Your boss rapes you? first question to ask is 'does he provide health insurance'?

if the answer is no...quit your job, if the answer is yes, suck it up....lay back and enjoy it!..THESE MUTHERFUCKERS KNOW NO SHAME!

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. This is compassionate conservatism at it's finest.

Why didn't they throw in a welfare queen or two while they were at it? All the while the bastards are buying another sub-zero appliance paid for by a government contract.

[rox63]

3. What a bunch of repugnant assholes

I'm not going to the link. I don't want to get National Review cooties.

[meegbear]

4. If they cared about their children, they'd be writing for the National Review ...

or stalking people.

[tularetom]

5. Yeah they're stupid people so let their kid die

What kind of human being actually thinks that way?

Other than malkin i mean.

[Trillo]

6. Ah, yes, the old 'Working-Poor are the Problem' meme"

"We know that Dara is at least capable of getting a job with insurance — so why does she not have one now?"

It's her fault she's in a low paying job. Jeebus Christmas, why isn't she a lawyer by now? /sarcasm

[Johonny]

7. hmm

Why are there jobs without health insurance? If the whole current system is set up that health care comes from employers how can there possibly jobs that don't provide it? What a flaw in the perfect American health care system. I can't believe it. Instead of questioning the parents, how about questioning the companies that pay slave wages and still don't pay for health care and instead pass the burden on to the government.

It's amazing that these people can be for denying health care to children and be proud of it. I don't give a crap how much money someone makes, they and their children should be assured health care.

Oh and one last question. Are they suggesting the parents should have aborted their baby? Ah...

[sinkingfeeling]

8. Excuse me, but I thought the Republicans didn't want to tell people when and how many children they

could have? Have they passed a law that says no one can have a child until they have employer health insurance? And aren't these the same folks that are constantly yelling about 'murdering millions of unborn children'? The baby has a major heart defect and they want her to die now? But, lord forbid, wouldn't they have detested the 'decision' the Wilkersones made if they had chose to abort the baby? I guess they believe that when you take a job they own you and even if you hate what you're doing you should just keep on doing it for a small salary and 'health care'.

I think the GOP ought to spell out their real stance in their party platform. "Stop aborting embryos and let serious ill children die after birth, the way god intended."

[wilt the stilt]

9. Sterilize them

I know Boortz would advocate that.

[Javaman]

10. Like most repukes, they are so far removed from reality, that they

don't have a clue regarding the content of what they write. in otherwords, talking out their asses.