One of the three Republican senators working on a bipartisan health care bill perpetuated a particularly outrageous untruth about the legislation on Wednesday.
Appearing at a town hall in his home state of Iowa, Sen. Chuck Grassley told a crowd of more than 300 that they were correct to fear that the government would "pull the plug on grandma."
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Stein reports on a major Repugnantcan senator passing out lies and selling fear on a topic that has already been clearly shown to be false, and probable intentional disinformation.
I like the article's headon approach to Grassley's deceit. But any solid report on this counseling issue should at least paraphrase the relevant part of the legislation. It also should point out that such counseling has been widely recommended by investment advisers, estate planners and family physicians for the past decade. This is so even if the HP has done both in previous articles.
Nobody could argue with Grassley's assertion that end-of-life planning should be done years ahead of that crisis point. But as one who had to help make such decisions with inadequate forethought, I am all for any incentive to this counseling. Sen. Grassley is fear-mongering at best -- and to all appearances is carefully treading just short of what he knows would be an outright lie.
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