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Rick Santorum is using the Supreme Court case over the constitutionality of the Obama administration's healthcare reform law to bash Mitt Romney.

"The solicitor general of the country in oral argument yesterday referred to 'Romneycare' as the basis for 'Obamacare,'" Santorum said during a campaign speech in Wisconsin, according to CNN.

Santorum was likely referring to part of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli's rebuttal on Tuesday in which Verrilli said that Congress passed the law because the body saw it "work in the States and in the State of Massachusetts and that, and that it had every reason to think would work on a national basis."

Critics of Romney and his time as governor of Massachusetts have argued that the law bears a strong resemblance to the one the Obama administration put in place. Santorum has made that argument and said that the law makes Romney "uniquely disqualified" to win the nomination and go against President Obam! a in the general election.

Santorum also seemed to make a reference to Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who analysts said going into the hearings, could be the deciding vote on the law.

"We can't rely upon one swing vote in the Supreme Court to decide what the future of our country should be," Santorum said.

Jeffrey Toobin, a law analyst and staff writer for The New Yorker, said after the second day of oral arguments that the law seemed in "grave" danger of being repealed. He said that Kennedy seemed ready to rule against the law.