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COLUMBIA, MO -- Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum made a stop at Columbia's Grace Bible Church Friday afternoon. The standing room only crowd was supportive of this conservative message.

Many said they also came to see the man who introduced him, author, radio-show host , and founder of Focus on the Family Dr. James Dobson. The event was a sit down style question and answer session moderated by Dobson.

"I think you will fall in love with him as we all have." says Dobson of Santorum.

The crowd found much in common with the candidate. Many people here brought their children and some home school them as well. Santorum and his wife have 7 children and his wife teaches them at home. Santorum told the crowd that people with large families are hopeful.

"If you have anxiety or fear then you will hold off and wait," says Santorum, expressing that fear over having children is harmful to America.

Santorum focused much of his message on the main reason why he joined the race, to defeat "Obamacare," a federally regulated healthcare system. He's concerned about federal control of care at both ends of life.

And he adds, a plan supported by republican rival Mitt Romney in Massachusetts is not much better, and puts control at the state level instead of the federal level. Santorum told the standing room only crowd that he believes a better system would be built from the ground up.

When pressed for details later, Santorum told KRCG that health insurance should be much like auto insurance. "When it come to sort of the ordinary care, the fill-ups, the tune-ups, the tire changes, those are the things insurance shouldn't pay for," says Santorum.

He supports health savings account and insurance policies for catastrophic care. "Health insurance isn't insurance, it's paying your bills and it costs money to have a big company paying your bills," says Santorum.

Dobson's comments on end of life care prompted the Associated Press and the Washington Post to follow up on claims stroke care would be limited in cases of older victims. Santorum appears to be backing a claim that the Obama administration would block medical treatment for stroke patients over age 70. Professional medical groups have called such statements bogus. 

Dobson cited an anonymous caller to a conservative radio show in denouncing what he said was a policy that imposed a death panel. Dobson claimed that under the policy, for patients over 70, advanced neurosurgical care was not generally indicated. That, he said, would mean death for that person.

Santorum seemed to go along with Dobson, arguing that government-run health care would result in limits on care.

The American Association of Neurological Surgeons and the Congress of Neurological Surgeons say no such regulation exists.

Later at the Columbia event, Santorum called on the crowd to find a new senator to replace democrat Claire McCaskill, and he emphasized his concern for American families and the importance of two parent households. He expressed support for the Keystone Oil Pipeline project, restrictions on embryonic stem cell research and and said in his first day in office,  he would fire all the "czars."

Many people said they agreed with Santorum's conservative stance, but were not sure if he's electable.