“Dying? I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance. People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their healthcare. And they don’t go to the emergency room or they don’t go to the doctor when they need to.”

Rick Santorum - A student, cited a 2009 Harvard University study, saying he didn’t “think God appreciates the fact that we have 50 to 100,000 uninsured Americans dying due to a lack of healthcare every year. - The Raw Story

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    I wonder what it’s like to not have a heart. Or a brain.
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    way to demonstrate his complete lack of understanding health disparities
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    And Rick Santorum still doesn’t get why there’s so much Google Juice around the website that defines his name. What an...
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    But we’re all forgetting that in SantorumLand you can just get a job whenever you want so that’s obviously not an...
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    Rick Santorum deserves the associations his last name has now, every bit of it.
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    “People die in America because people die in America.”There is not a single reason to engage this zombie’s “thought...
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    The assertion that people just don’t go to the ER because they “make poor decisions” ENRAGES me. People don’t go to the...