Grassley Endorses "Death Panel" Rumor: "You Have Every Right To Fear"
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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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.