14 August 2005

Santorum: Enabler of Medicare/Medicaid fraud and patient mistreatment/endangerment?

A nursing home in the Pittsburgh area has gotten busted repeatedly for Health Department and Medicare/Medicaid violations, including 19 incidents involving serious harm to patients.

Senator Rick Santorum, who describes himself as a devout "Christian", went to bat for the nursing home and got them an unprecidented fourth inspection to delay funding cuts. In the meantime, more patients died.

Now let's look at Santorum's campaign records: Gee whiz, believe it or not, Santorum's 2001 reelection campaign records show a nice contribution from Martha Bell, that nursing home's former administrator, who has been accused of ordering employees to cover up evidence of patient deaths from negligence!

[Read story.]

Yeah, "Christianity" at its finest! Jesus would be so pleased, right?

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