Dem Poster Child Not So Needy After All

Last week the Dems trotted out a 12 year old boy, Graeme Frost, who had been badly injured in a traffic accident to do the weekly radio address. The purpose of his talk was to chastise the president for threatening to veto the S-CHIP bill which would have expanded a federal health program to children as old as 25 and families making as much as $83,000 a year. The president vetoed the bill despite the pleadings of the 12 year old, and now it turns out that his family was not quite as needy as they may have been portrayed. A Freeper and others uncovered some background information on the Frost family (h/t Instapundit):

Graeme Frost, who gave the democrat rebuttal to George Bush’s reasons for vetoing the SCHIP Bill, is a middle school student at the exclusive $20,000 per year Park School in Baltimore, MD.

Graeme was in a severe car accident three years ago, and received care paid for by the government program known as SCHIP-(State Children's Health Insurance Program)

"I was in a coma for a week and couldn't eat or stand up or even talk. My sister was even worse," Graeme wrote. "My parents work really hard and always make sure my sister and I have everything we need, but we can't afford private health insurance."

His sister Gemma, also severely injured in the accident, attended the same school prior to the accident meaning the family was able to come up with nearly $40,000 per year for tuition for these 2 grade schoolers. Confirmation both attended Park found here using edit-"find on this page"-Gemma. It will take you to an article in the schools newspaper about a fundraiser for Gemma class of 16, and Graeme class of 13.

The Corner has much more including this:

Mr Frost, the "woodworker", owns his own design company and the commercial property it operates from, part of which space he also rents out; they have a 3,000-sq-ft home on a street where a 2,000-sq-ft home recently sold for half a million dollars; he was able to afford to send two children simultaneously to a $20,000-a-year private school; his father and grandfather were successful New York designers and architects; etc. This is apparently the new definition of "working families".

Now, I'm sorry that the family suffered such a terrible accident, but shouldn't a family that can afford $40,000 a year in private school tuition be able to find a way to fund their own health insurance program without waiting for a federal handout?

If they're Democrats, apparently not.