Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has backtracked on comments that the government “would decide when to pull the plug on Grandma,” saying yesterday on Face the Nation, “It won’t do that.”
Grassley also said, as he has in the past, that it “scares the devil out of people” that doctors will have financial incentives to discuss advance directives such as living wills, and that the provision “oughta be dropped.”
Grassley said he only used the phrase “pull the plug on Grandma,” because President Obama had used it the day before at a town hall in Portsmouth, N.H.
