{"id":9970,"date":"2007-10-10T09:15:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9970"},"modified":"2007-10-10T09:15:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T15:15:25","slug":"expanding-the-program-dan-collins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=9970","title":{"rendered":"Expanding the Program [Dan Collins]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Baltimore Sun publishes some hard numbers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The Frosts say the description of their family’s circumstances now circulating is misleading. Halsey, they say, is a self-employed woodworker – he has no employees – while Bonnie works part time for a medical publishing firm. Together, they say, they earn between $45,000 and $50,000 a year.<\/p>\n

That would make the Frosts eligible for Maryland’s Children’s Health Program, which is open to families that earn no more than 300 percent of the federal poverty level, or $82,830 a year for a family of six.<\/p>\n

The Frosts declined to show The Sun their 2006 income tax returns, and the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene would not confirm their enrollment in the program. But John G. Folkemer, the deputy secretary for health care financing, said yesterday that applicants must prove their income levels through Social Security numbers or tax returns to be accepted for coverage.<\/p>\n

Folkemer said a family’s assets are not considered in determining eligibility. Halsey Frost purchased the family home for $55,000 in 1990, according to city records, and refinanced in 2005, he says, to make improvements to accommodate the return of Graeme and Gemma from the hospital. The 1936 brick rowhouse, on a side street near Patterson Park, has an assessed value of $263,140.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, up to 3 times the poverty level makes a family “working poor,” and they wish to expand the program.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have any beef with the family declining to share their tax filings; that’s their prerogative.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I’d say more, but I expect it will all be covered in the comments.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 I wonder if I could get a distance learning degree in Mental Hygiene.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What do mental hygienists get paid?<\/p>\n

Nancy Pelosi, from the same article:<\/p>\n

Pelosi fired back yesterday.<\/p>\n

“I think that the attack on this family is just breaking new ground and stooping to new lows in terms of what happens in Washington, D.C.,” she told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Malkin has some examples of why we are a little distrustful regarding these issues<\/a>.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps you all can supply me some links to help Nan get a bit of perspective on how groundbreaking this is.<\/p>\n

More insight: Loonbats believe Republican staffers may have spread smear info<\/a>, because a staffer for McConnell wrote a summary of blog reactions to the news the family might not be so poor that somehow was misdirected to Harry Reid’s office.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 You know, this leak may have severed his link.<\/p>\n

Thoughts on karmic retribution <\/a>and other good stuff, at the Pub, and Tinkerty-Tonk makes it sting again<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0(but not me, this time).\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe Malkin could outsource some of her stalking to Rachel.<\/p>\n

Camille Paglia on lesbian bathroom sex <\/a>and some other stuff I can’t recall.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 Lesbians are a lot like guys with breasts.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: MayBee catches Adkins<\/a> posting at Klein’s:<\/p>\n

The cute part is how I was attacked\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6 I said it on my blog and I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll say it here. I wasn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t defending SCHIP, not at all, I was defending that families right to privacy. That\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s why I put malkin\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s real address, Phone number and Arial picture of her house on my blog. I removed it after a reporter for the Baltimore Sun asked me to kill it<\/strong>, because they were doing a story on Malkin.<\/p>\n

If Malkin wants to try painting me as moonbat, fine. I\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2ll just paint her as the right wing fascist that she is.<\/p>\n

Posted by: Hardliner | Oct 10, 2007 11:48:30 AM<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Colin McEnroe boils down to this<\/a>: It’s really cruel to expect people to plan ahead.\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0 What a noob.<\/p>\n

Use extreme caution<\/a> in rebuffing, taunting Chuck Adkins (h\/t Moron Pundit)<\/p>\n

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The Baltimore Sun publishes some hard numbers: The Frosts say the description of their family’s circumstances now circulating is misleading. Halsey, they say, is a self-employed woodworker – he has no employees – while Bonnie works part time for a medical publishing firm. Together, they say, they earn between $45,000 and $50,000 a year. That would make the Frosts eligible for Maryland’s Children’s Health Program, which is open to families<\/p>\n

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