Michelle Malkin, enthusiastic stalker of families with injured children, posits this question in her latest rant on the topic of SCHIP coverage for medically indigent families:
"Who deserves government-subsidized health insurance?"
Well, evidently the Slime Queen herself thinks she deserves it.
In 2004, she wrote the following narrative about her attempts to find affordable health care insurance in Maryland:
After my husband quit his job earlier this year (to become a full-time stay-at-home dad), we had a choice. We could either buy health insurance from his former employer through a program called COBRA at a cost of more than $1,000 per month(!) or we could go it alone in Maryland’s individual market. Given our financial circumstances, that "choice" wasn’t much of a choice at all. We had to go on our own.
We discovered that the most generous plans in Maryland’s individual market cost $700 per month yet provide no more than $1,500 per year of prescription drug coverage–a drop in the bucket if someone in our family were to be diagnosed with a serious illness.
With health insurance choices like that, no wonder so many people opt to go uninsured.
In the end, we decided to purchase a very high-deductible plan (sold by Golden Rule Insurance Co.) coupled with a tax-sheltered Medical Savings Account (MSA). We couldn’t qualify for the preferred rate because Golden Rule says I am underweight. Hmph! In any case, while Krugman and most Democrats don’t seem to like MSAs, in our case we were glad they were an option.
Tax-sheltered Medical Savings Account? Sounds interesting. Let's check it out:
A Medical Savings Account (MSA) is a type of health insurance plan that combines both a tax advantaged personal savings account and a high-deductible health insurance policy.
[. . .]
Spending on qualified (allowable) medical expenses from an MSA is not subject to federal taxation. ("Qualified medical expenses" are defined as those so designated by the Internal Revenue Service.)
AARP factsheet
So let me get this straight. The taxpayers are subsidizing Michelle Malkin's health care expenses?
Does she deserve it????
Somebody go check out her countertops, pronto.