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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt's sickening how Santorum is using the condition of his daughter to gain the sympathy vote of
the republican right wing. It looks like his main talking point. Desperation.
onehandle
(51,122 posts)AlinPA
(15,071 posts)HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)Some nobody from Alaska. I forget her name.
maximusveritas
(2,915 posts)If anything, attacking him for this is sickening.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)and to get the "social conservative vote.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)daughter in such a manner.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)maximusveritas
(2,915 posts)At first, I was thinking he was just criticizing Santorum for talking about his daughter, using her to gain sympathy from voters.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)If he did not bring his child's disability up time and time again and USE her to spread lies about health care reform I would definitely agree. As a parent of a child with disbilities he makes me sick. He is vile.
Peregrine Took
(7,407 posts)A dad with class would protect her privacy but he is a classless weirdo.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)If they already had one handicapped child, finding out their expected child had Trisomy18 would have been devastating news.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)I have bigger fish to fry.
Don
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)appleannie1
(5,028 posts)And before I get slammed for saying so, read the article. He says so himself.
DesertFlower
(11,649 posts)emilyg
(22,742 posts)daughter - part of what he is. Surely you can find somthing better to pick on.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)to other children with disabilities. He brings her up as an example of why universal health care is bad. He thinks it is fine to price health insurance out of reach for people (and children) with pre-exisiting conditions.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)I look at how society with socialized medicine treats children like Bella, and children like Bella dont survive, Santorum told The Des Moines Register Monday, the first leg of a three-day swing through Iowa. Children like Bella are not given the treatment that other children are given.
Santorum said the new health care law, championed by President Barack Obama, will mean disabled people are denied care more often, and repealing it is the best way to address mounting national debt.
He said that disabled children are denied care today.
Its not like this isnt happening now, he said. But it will happen more under a much more budgetarily-driven health care system.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/04/26/172049/santorum-survive-bella/
Rick the self-proclaimed "Jesus candidate" is fine with children with disabilities being denied care, as long as the children are POOR.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)SANTORUM: I had insurance under my employer. And when I decided to run for president, I left my job, I lost my insurance, I had to go out and buy insurance on the open market. We have a child who has a pre-existing condition and we went out and we said, we like this plan
we have to pay more because she has a pre-existing condition. Well, we should pay more. Shes going to be very expensive to the insurance company and, you know, that cost is passed along to us
Im okay with that.
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/12/02/380582/santorum-insurers-should-discriminate-against-pre-existing-conditions/
Most families would not be able to afford the premiums faced with the same situation. Furthermore, this was prior to the passage of the HCR Act, so any insurance he was able to purchase on the open market would not have covered a pre-existing condition for at least a YEAR. That would spell bankruptcy or DEATH for most American families.
Santorum deserves to be exposed for his hypocrisy and complete lack of human comapssion. He's a pig.
He brings up his daughter's disability time and time again to spew his propaganda and lies.
He gets NO PASS from me.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)reform system. He is using her. I watched him in PA a lot before his daughter was born and he is a slimy character.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)karynnj
(59,466 posts)his job to run for President - that likely was after the 2011 start of that provision for children. He benefited from HCR and apparently does not know it.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)Do you think he was really unaware that they benefitted from HCR? I am torn because I know he's not the brightest bulb, but is really THAT dumb?
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jillan
(39,451 posts)Fuck YOU!