Rick Santorum Doesn't Realize People Die Because of Lack of Health Insurance

How much more out of touch can this batch of republicans be? This is why republicans don't understand why Americans would want better healthcare. They're not in touch with the plight of the average American, spending all their time focused on the wealthy guys and all. BTW, a Harvard study linked 45,000 deaths annually to lack of coverage.

The student said he didn’t “think God appreciates the fact that we have 50 to 100,000 uninsured Americans dying due to a lack of healthcare every year,” citing a 2009 study out of Harvard University.
“Dying?” Santorum answered before going back and forth about the validity of the study.
“The answer is not what can we do to prevent deaths because of a lack of health insurance. There’s — I reject that number completely, that people die in America because of lack of health insurance,” Santorum said to a crowd of 100.
“People die in America because people die in America. And people make poor decisions with respect to their health and their healthcare. And they don’t go to the emergency room or they don’t go to the doctor when they need to,” he said. “And it’s not the fault of the government for not providing some sort of universal benefit. Read Santorum's concerns about "sexual activity"