Personally I can't afford to get sick. But this is too much. People pay for iPads because they want them, not because they are going to die if they don't get one. And where does $900 equal $1,000,000? The article points out that Santorum is the father of a child with a genetic disorder, but it SHOULD say Santorum is a guy with MONEY who is the father of a child with a rare genetic disorder. That's a different ballgame than what this lady and her kid are dealing with.
My question is...does this help Santorum's candidacy? That he can look a sick kid in the eye and tell him to get lost? Or does it hurt him? If I'm his campaign manager I would lock him in a closet and tell everyone he was sick, but I don't know how long that would work. And then what? You'd have to let him out someday. Or would you? Hmmmm.
GOP contender Rick Santorum had a heated exchange with a mother and her sick young son Wednesday, arguing that drug companies were entitled to charge whatever the market demanded for life-saving therapies.
Santorum, himself the father of a child with a rare genetic disorder, compared buying drugs to buying an iPad, and said demand would determine the cost of medical therapies.
"People have no problem paying $900 for an iPad," Santorum said, "but paying $900 for a drug they have a problem with - it keeps you alive. Why? Because you've been conditioned to think health care is something you can get without having to pay for it."
The mother said the boy was on the drug Abilify, used to treat schizophrenia, and that, on paper, its costs would exceed $1 million each year.
[ABC News]
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