After the cut: a transcript of Mr. Santorum's remarks.
RICK SANTORUM: Insurance works when people who are higher risk end up having to pay more, as they should. You say, in your case, your son? Absolutely. He obviously did nothing wrong. Obviously there are a lot of other people who did a lot of things that increased their health risks that did do things wrong and as a result, uh you know, resulted in higher health care costs. It's it's, if it was all the same case as your son, then maybe you could make the argument, well, nobody did anything to cause their health care, uh, their instance of health care costs to go up, but of course that's not the case. There is a reason to do this. To suggest everybody pays the same is in fact a penalty on people who are doing the right thing and not necessarily for people who aren't, who weren't doing the right thing.