NRCC: Michigan Democrat "Supports Pulling the Plug on Grandma"

 

The National Republican Congressional Committee is circulating a video of state Rep. Gary McDowell, the Democratic nominee in the race to replace retiring Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak (D), showing McDowell discussing the cost of health care in the last three months of life. The event took place at Mancelona High School in the fall of 2009, months before McDowell declared he would run for Congress.

"We're not going to be able to provide for our children's education, we're not going to be able to provide all the other things in life that we need to do first as a society, because we are taking so much money for health care at the end of life and the reason is, because I've mentioned to you before, our whole health care system is based upon procedures, doing these things on real expensive gadgets and whistles and bells," McDowell said at a forum. [...]
"It seems that Gray McDowell supports pulling the plug on Grandma because her health care is too expensive," said NRCC spokesman Tom Erickson. "Where an ailing person may see a new lease on life, career politician McDowell sees a 'real expensive gadget' with too many 'whistles and bells'. If Michigan families are going to keep their loved ones safe, they need to keep McDowell and his extremist views far from Washington."