The right wants to make war on the Frost family? Bring ‘em on, writes Colin McEnroe of the Hartford Courant:

If you boil away all the vitriol, what you’re left with is a conservative argument that goes like this: These people — even with their combined income of a VERY modest $45,000 — have no business turning to the government for help with their medical bills because they haven’t been bankrupted yet.  They’re income is low, but they’ve managed to hang onto some assets that place them a little closer to the middle class. It’s disgusting that they get help from the government if they have anything.

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If the Democrats were smart, they’d keep this conversation going, because the Frosts seem to be exactly whom we should be talking about. They’re trying to make it as a middle class family, without a lot of income. And they’re just about succeeding, as long Malkin and her friends don’t insist that they be bankrupted or stripped of their hard-won assets by their medical bills.

Medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy in this nation.  When people are telling you how much better our system is than those of Germany, France, Australia, Canada, be sure to point that out. In our system, you could lose your job tomorrow, lose your health insurance in the same gulp and immediately become one bad illness or accident away from bankruptcy (although, in fact, our system regularly bankrupts even the people who think they do have coverage, as the Harvard Study illustrates).

And look at this! Malkin and her friends don’t want to fix that problem. On the contrary, they insist on it!  They insist on the risk of bankruptcy as kind of a moral imperative; and they say members of the shaky, eroding American middle class who are not willing to put up with the ruination of their financial health from medical bills are leeches and wussies! Wow.