<![CDATA[RealClearPolitics - Articles by Mike McIntire and Michael Luo]]>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/authors/?id=23886Author <![CDATA[After Senate, Santorum Used Revolving Door]]> Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0600 In the years before he lost his Pennsylvania Senate seat in 2006, Rick Santorum worked hard to win hundreds of millions of dollars in additional Medicare money for hospitals in Puerto Rico.

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He sponsored at least two Senate bills and pushed to amend a mammoth Medicare overhaul to include the extra spending, which would have benefited Universal Health Services, a Pennsylvania-based hospital management company with facilities in Puerto Rico. If it seems at odds with the small-government philosophy Mr....]]>