My column in today’s American Spectator discusses the hits Rick Santorum has been taking from the “news” media since his stunning performance last week in Iowa. Among other things, they are attacking him for rejecting a study on the connection between lack of insurance and patient mortality:
Among the nuggets they have unearthed involves an exchange Santorum had a month ago with a student at Dordt College, a small Christian school in Sioux Center, Iowa. The student cited a 2009 study about the number of people who allegedly die every year for lack of health insurance and averred that God does not appreciate “the fact that we have 50 to 100,000 uninsured Americans dying due to a lack of healthcare every year.”
Santorum said he rejected that number, which was quite sensible because the study cited was just a piece of PNHP propaganda. No one noted the event at the time. But, right after Santorum pulled off his surprise in Iowa, the internet was flooded with stories about his calousness toward the uninsured.
He has also been labeled an anti-intellectual knuckle-dragger, had his sanity questioned on talking head shows because of the way he and his wife chose to reach closure on the death of their infant son, and has been subjected to anti-Catholic bigotry from the NYT. To read the rest of this tawdry tale click here.
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