Rick Santorum accused Mitt Romney on Monday of “lying to the American people” when it comes to the former Massachusetts governor’s position on his signature health care law.
Speaking at a campaign stop in Ohio, the former Pennsylvania senator leveled a stinging attack on Romney, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“If the policy is bad, the policy is bad," Santorum said. "And a bad policy is one thing. But lying to the American people is something else."
Santorum was referencing, among other things, a recently back-in-the-spotlight opinion piece Romney wrote for USA Today in 2009, which suggested that President Obama could use Romney’s Massachusetts’ initiative as a blueprint for a national plan, including an individual mandate to get people to buy insurance. Romney has said on the campaign trail that he always opposed a federal mandate to buy health insurance.
The Romney campaign has adamantly denied Santorum's charges.
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