Rick Santorum Defends Connections To Health Care Industry: ‘You Know, I Have To Work!’

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While in the Senate, Santorum also “sponsored at least two Senate bills and pushed to amend a mammoth Medicare overhaul” to include the extra spending that benefited “Universal Health Services, a Pennsylvania-based hospital management company.” After leaving Congress, “Santorum joined the board of Universal Health Services, where he collected $395,000 in director’s fees and stock options before resigning last year.”

Asked about the apparent conflict of interest during an appearance on the Laura Ingraham show this morning, Santorum said, “I was on the board of a public company that because of my work on health care.” “I’m very proud of that work, I’m very proud of the company. You know, I have to work!”

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/06/399203/rick-santorum-defends-connections-to-health-care-industry-you-know-i-have-to-work/

[yardwork]

1. I have to work, too, Rick but I managed to find a job that doesn't require criminal activities.

[kestrel91316]

2. I love how he considers serving on a corporate board of directors as "work".

[marmar]

6. Exactly......Classic wingnut welfare.

nt

[fasttense]

8. He happens to believe in private Health Care????

Is that why he has Government Health Care covering himself and his family?? Does anyone see any Hypocrisy here???

What a Fraud this “Man on Dog, Sex “ mongrel is, and he wants to be PRESIDENT ?? Are You kidding me??

[DeathToTheOil]

3. Santorum served on the board of a hospital that mistook autism for demonic posession

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002128565

Funny how she didn't ask him about that, eh?

[Enrique]

4. is he a historian too? n/t

[PA Democrat]

5. Rick, Universal Health Services was buying political access, not any actual job skills

you may possess. Nice "work" if you can get it.

[Quantess]

7. What a sleaze. I did not know this about Frothy the Santorum.