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Rick Santorum says the health care reform law is a threat to those with medical conditions that are costly to treat. (Richard Shiro/Associated Press) |
For Santorum, the issue of health care is personal
Ailing daughter spurs candidate’s top policy goal
Rick Santorum’s personal narrative is easily the most searing of any candidate this season. And when he speaks, often haltingly, about the health struggles of his 3-year-old daughter, Bella, it is almost always in conjunction with his top policy goal of dismantling the health-care reform law. The new rules, he says, are a threat to those like her, “on the margins of life.’’
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