A post which I wish I would have written first

Krugman on the wholesale lunacy of some of the right wing blogosphere going after a 12 year old kid:

Politics aside, the Graeme Frost case demonstrates the true depth of the health care crisis: every other advanced country has universal health insurance, but in America, insurance is now out of reach for many hard-working families, even if they have incomes some might call middle-class.

And there’s one more point that should not be forgotten: ultimately, this isn’t about the Frost parents. It’s about Graeme Frost and his sister.

I don’t know about you, but I think American children who need medical care should get it, period. Even if you think adults have made bad choices — a baseless smear in the case of the Frosts, but put that on one side — only a truly vicious political movement would respond by punishing their injured children.

While the facts seem to clearly make the case that the Frosts have made choices that are essentially good ones for a family to make: work two jobs, stay together with kids who are handicapped by illness. They've been ridiculed for taking federal help instead of making other "choices" - Like not selling there home (well duh move to worse neighborhood) or sending there disabled kid to a public school (when the tuition at the private school is covered by the state secondary to the child's disability). It's important to remember that they didn't choose to have there kids be in a car accident (and thus basically prevent them from getting any affordable health insurance secondary to preexisting conditions). Finally, it's just as important to remember these are still children and as a society no matter the decisions of parent we should give ALL kids a reasonable chance to succeed and making sure kids are healthy is essential to that