Santorum: Sick To Blame For Pre-Existing Conditions, Should Be Charged More

[Galraedia]

During a town hall in Keene, New Hampshire this morning, Rick Santorum told a mother whose son survived cancer that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health care coverage because they make poor health care choices. While specifically exempting the woman’s child from personal blame, Santorum insisted that the sick cost more to insure and insurers should charge them higher premiums:

MOTHER: The comments I heard you make in New Hampshire, comments that you support insurance companies’ right to refuse to insure people with pre-existing conditions and that you also agreed with higher premiums for people who are sick, well my son graduated college and I pray that he gets a good job. Why is it alright for him to possibly be denied health care insurance or have to possibly pay a fee that he would not be able to afford or for a company not to hire him because he was five years old and he had cancer? …

SANTORUM: Insurance works when people who are higher risk end up having to pay more, as they should. In your case, your son obviously did nothing wrong. Obviously there are a lot of other people that increased their health risk that did do things wrong and as a result, it resulted in higher health care costs.

Watch it:

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/06/399357/santorum-to-mother-of-cancer-survivor-sick-are-to-blame-for-their-pre-existing-conditions-insurers-should-charge-them-more/

[liberal N proud]

1. Damn they either cruel or ignorant

I will go with cruel.

[Justice wanted]

2. This is spoken by a man who has enough money to throw at any problems that may come upon

him health wise. If Mr Santorum care to step out of his glass house and see reality for a minute... Well, I think the shock would put the man in a coma.

[madaboutharry]

3. The bottom line is that he is a jackass.

There isn't anything else to say.

[LynneSin]

4. Now that is just wrong...

Jackasses do NOT like being compared to Dick Santorum!

[PassingFair]

5. Clueless Fucker.

I actually hate him.

I must be in a REALLY bad mood tonight....

[Old and In the Way]

6. He doesn't have a fundemental understanding of what insurance is.

Not surprising...it's a socialist concept - spreading the risk. His ideological blinders make it impossible for him to process this.

[roguevalley]

9. punish people who suffer even more. what a sick fucker he is. god, I really could

hate him if I tried.

[Vinca]

7. I would love to know if Santorum's daughter, who is 20 and working on the campaign, is covered

on the family health insurance plan under demon "Obamacare." Now that would be a scandal.

[quaker bill]

8. The point of insurance

is that some people get sick, and sooner or later all of us do.

[Ezlivin]

10. When stupidity is a pre-existing condition the situation is hopeless

See: Rick Santorum

[dembotoz]

11. yep my wife went to the leukemia store and said that looks yummy give me some of that.

never smoked
in fact would not date me until i quit

did not drink much

reasonably fit

she should have lived to a very ripe old age....

[liberalmuse]

12. Atrocious.

I love how the vast majority of his audiences appear to be at the age where they're likely drawing SS & Medicare. It's astounding to me that someone like this can get even this far in American politics. I don't think it speaks well of the tiny segment of Americans who appear to have to have either lost their humanity or marbles. Or both.