Rick Santorum Tells Sick Kid Market Should Should Set Drug Prices

I wish they would take the health insurance away from these candidates (all of them) and let them go to the private market to purchase a policy. They would quickly find out that the preexisting conditions they and their children have would not pass underwriting and they would either be denied a policy or certain family members would be excluded. The cost of Santorum insuring a family of his size with a child who is that ill might bankrupt him. I wish we could published the cost of caring for his family per year with and without insurance and also with his current goverment sponsored plan versus one purchased on the open market. I want them all to admit both sides that this is a broken medical system. We can do better...but I guess I am just dreaming....

Out of the mouth of a man that gets free healthcare for his child who is sick with a rare disorder. I'd like Santorum (who always looks to be on the verge of tears while he speaks), to walk a mile in the shoes of a parent with a sick child and yet have no way to pay for that innocent child's healthcare costs.

First of all an ipad doesn't cost 900 dollars, plus people don't buy an ipad every month like people do for drugs. We are the only country in the entire world that advertises drugs, we as americans consumer more prescription drugs then any other country by a landslide. The Republipigs make it so obvious every day that they only care about the corporations, big pharma, banks, and the 1 percent. You would be nothing without the middle and working class of this country yet you screw us every chance you get.

Look up history folks the republican party hates medicare and social security. Always have always will they voted against it over and over again. If they had their way the market would dictate everything .The same market that crashed if seniors were tied to the market as they wished our parents and grandparents would be homeless and without medical services. They the republicans have convinced the working man that taxing the rich their fair share is evil and all unions are the cause of all our woes. The cause of our woes are the global American companies that no longer care about our country. They report too the few the shareholders to them the country isn't a priority.They don't care if products say made in America as long as the shareholders are taken care of. It used to be our own American companies felt a sense of duty to us Americans but no more.So if the republicans had their way instead of two panhandlers at a busy street corner there would be lines are far as you could see. Don't forget history people remember the song I sold my soul to the company store. The republicans wish those days were back google it

That's why health care should be non-profit, Mr. Santorum. If you can't see the differnence between discretionary spending(i-pads) and necessities(health care, and yes, gasoline), get away from public service.

I'm all for a free market, but Rick Santorum is an idiot. If somebody on their deathbed needs $900 medicine I can guarantee they aren't spending the money on an ipad instead. The people gladly spending $900 on an ipad aren't dying.

Of course , it is only a child's health at stake . We will never sacrifice corporate profits on the altar
of insignificant poor people who have no value to our party .

What an idiot. Drugs are not Ipads or cars. They are medicine you dimwit. They already rip us off. They claim they need the high prices to pay for research when in fact much of the research is paid for or done by the government. They already gough us so their execs can get big pay and bonuses.

This absolutely infuriates me. What Santorum leaves out of this picture is that the government provides those same pharmaceutical companies with the seed money to develop new drugs, physical and legal infrastructure, university and other scientific research backing, safety standards and testing assistance, and, for some drugs, a market. At the scale of markets we're talking about here, the government is inextricably linked with big pharma. Big pharma couldn't do it without the government.

I guess people have forgotten that the Republicans blocked Medicare from making bulk purchases to reduce costs and the reimportation of drugs from other countries.

This guy will never be President, he's dreaming for real!

The nation does NOT need people like Santorum. Good riddance. His poll numbers show that he is now a non-issue. The idiot compares buying an optional ipad to a drug used to fight a life threatening illness? What an IDIOT.

I really think the government, that takes our tax dollars for bombs, campaigns, bridges to nowhere, etc. should fund research. Americans are really losing their love and compassion. Do you all really think that Paris Hilton deserves a life saving drug more then YOU do because she is a rich tart? Does that seem fair? This is why I will NEVER - EVER vote Republican. This is wrong and sickening.

Matthew 25:41-45
'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least among you, you did not do for me.' JESUS ...........Does that sound like “conservatism” to you? LOL

If Santorum cannot see the difference between an iPad and a life saving drug, he must not attribute much value to saving a 'human life'. Because that's the difference!

If you are looking for compassion from the GOP don't hold your breath.

Yes, they need to make a profit, even a good profit but, do they really need to make enough profit to pay lobbyists and to make election donations?
You're a rich guy Rick and can afford to not let your child die. We are the ones who stupidly allowed you to become that rich.

And the U.S has the most expensive drugs in the world because the government can't buy drugs in bulk to make them cheaper.

Santorum is treating these people like they are fools. All reasonable, clear thinking Americans KNOW that the Pharmaceutical companies are raking in gigantic profits, and that they are in collusion with the government to keep all laws & regulations favorable to their bottom line. It's big business - they have deep pockets, lobbyists, power. To equate health care to buying an iPad is downright despicable. And did these people say anything about getting health care for free, because they've been "conditioned" to believe they are entitled to it? All they want is a FAIR deal, a reasonable price, maybe a little, tiny bit of HOPE. This #$%$ is so out of touch (just like the rest of his capitol hill cronies), he actually thinks that they will believe such #$%$ Sadly, he's partially right - too many people in this country follow their leaders blindly with out questioning things and thinking for themselves. If we don't get the people "in charge" in this country to start looking out for the needs of their CONSTITUENTS, instead of their own needs and their entitled friends and partners, this country will be DONE like dinner in only a few more decades. The cracks have already appeared, the foundation is buckling, yet the greed, apathy, and ignorance are stronger than ever. We are in SO MUCH TROUBLE in this country it's not even funny.

What would Jesus do huh? What a good Christian way to look at things, I swear...