Bob Schieffer, host of the Face The Nation, spoke with Sen. Chuck Grassley Sunday about some controversial comments the Iowa Republican made last week about President Obama’s healthcare proposal, specifically, that the legislation included a provision that would “pull the plug on grandma.”

Grassley said his comments were in response to a constituent’s question.

“The specific language I used was language that the president had used it in Portsmouth,” Grassley said.

CBS News reported that Grassley said his “his constituents are concerned that the issue of end of life counseling is being connected with a government run option.”

“You are scaring a lot of people,” Grassley said. “I know that the Pelosi bill doesn’t intend to do that but that is where it leads people to.”

During the interview Grassley conceded that the end-of-life counsel “will not do that.”

But he said that “doctors giving you some advice at the end of life” will cost Americans $8 billion.