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Rick Santorum claims that the expansion of government health care in Obamacare inspired him to run for president and regularly condemns the government’s involvement in the Medicare program. “We should not have a government-run health care system on Medicare or anything else, because it completely distorts the market,” he explained at a town hall in South Carolina on January 12. “It’s top down. It’s not the way America works best.”
But this morning, during an appearance on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal, the former Pennsylvania senator embraced the most government-centric health care system of them all: veterans health care — a fully integrated structure of government payers and providers.
