Former Sen. Rick Santorum, who says he is considering a run for the Republican presidential nomination, says that the second thing the next president should do to deal with the federal debt crisis—after signing legislation to repeal Obamacare—is end Medicaid as a federal entitlement.

Santorum likened his idea of ending Medicaid as a federal entitlement to the landmark legislation he helped push through a Republican-majority Senate in 1996 that ended welfare as a federal entitlement.

“So on Medicaid we need to do the same thing,” Santorum said in an Online With Terry Jeffrey interview. “We need to repeal the federal entitlement, which is just a perverse incentive for the states to spend more money. And turn the program back” to the states.

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