The Kraliceks said they are fed up with fighting a bureaucracy that won't even pay for one of the most inexpensive medicines on the market. They say the agency doesn't seem to care and is sapping their finances and hampering Mike's recovery. The Kraliceks said the insurance fund has questioned many items, including much-needed speech therapy, bed rails, and portable wheelchair ramps. It also rejected paying the full price of handicapped modifications to their bathroom -- about $36,000 -- Marc Stewart/CDA Press here.

DFO: I know what it's like to hassle an insurance company for tiny items. Seems I go to battle with my company, which receives beaucoup bucks from the paper and me for premiums, at least once a year. Now, multiply that about 100 times and you have the Kralicek situation. Such is the treatment of a brave officer severely injured in the line of duty. Where's the elected official or community activist to go to bat for him? Sen. John Goedde? Anyone? F'shame.

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