Santorum Gets His First Media Assault

Rick Santorum lost his Senate seat in 2006, but before that, he sponsored at least two bills that won hundreds of millions of dollars in Medicare funding for Universal Health Services, a Pennsylvania-based hospital-management company with facilities in Puerto Rico. Within months of leaving the Senate, Santorum joined the company's board, collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees and stock options before resigning last year. That's just one of many businesses that had lucrative ties to Santorum, who built a career in the private sector with income from companies that returned the favor for his work in Congress, and his strong showing in Iowa is upping the scrutiny over his history.