Appearing on Fox News this morning, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) once again called the death panel controversy (which he stoked) a Democratic party diversion…and then noted that the House proposal to reimburse doctors for providing end-of-life care “raises questions.”
“What they try to do is divert attention,” Grassley said, referring to what he called the House’s “miserably poor health care bill.”
But then he switched gears, to defend his support for end of life counseling six years ago. “[W]e were talking just in the very narrow area of hospice care…nothing to do with saving money,” Grassley said. “And when you get in to what their goals are in the House bill, it’s saving money…and we never had anything like that in 2003.”
Host Megyn Kelly interjected, “and your concern is the plan to save money and cut costs, coupled with these end of life consultations, raises questions, I guess.’
“And coupled with government takeover of health care,” affirmed Grassley.
