SCHIP fight leads to smearing of 12 Year Old's Family

The Federal government is debating funding of SCHIP, a program that provides healthcare funding to States to provide healthcare to children whose families make too much for Medicaid and too little to afford private insurance. Congress passed an increase of funding for the program that would cover 4 million additional American children, and president Bush vetoed that increase. Before attempting to override Bush's veto, the democrats had 12 year old Graeme Frost give their weekly radio address in support of SCHIP. Graeme and his sister were seriously injured in a car accident and SCHIP provided the help necessary for his family to provide the months of necessary rehab. The right wing response was swift and brutal, making Graeme's family out to be upper middle class frauds that proves that SCHIP is unnecessary. If you have any friends that parrot the right wing claims about Graeme and his family you can respond with what you learn from the interview with Graeme's Parents on Keith Olbermann's Countdown show Monday...