Former Sen. Rick Santorum had some interesting views on health care at the Young Americans for Freedom event on Friday.
He told attendees “the government is going to be the principal provider of health care for the country. It’s actually a pretty clever system,” he explained, “Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you.”
He continued “When Thatcher ran for prime minister she said — remember this, this is the Iron Lady — she said, ‘The British national health care system is safe in my hands.’ She wasn’t going to take on health care, because she knew once you have people getting free health care from the government, you can’t take it away from them.”
His conspiracy theory that the country’s elected leader uses the National Health Service (NHS) to kill people who could vote against them doesn’t hold water, but raises awareness in the event there is some truth to it.