Obama's Grandmother: Would he Have Pulled The Plug Due to Cost? His Words Below on Two Separate Occasions

On April 29, 2009, in New York Times Magazine, Obama speaks of his grandmother:

“I don’t know how much that hip replacement [for my grandmother] cost. I would have paid out of pocket for that hip replacement just because she’s my grandmother. You just get into some very difficult moral issues” when considering whether “to give my grandmother, or everybody else’s aging grandparents or parents, a hip replacement when they’re terminally ill. The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80 percent of the total health- care bill out here.”

On August 15, 2009, in a Town Hall Meeting in Grand Junction Colorado, Obama again invokes his grandmother by saying:

"I just lost my grandmother last year. I know what it's like to watch somebody you love, who's aging, deteriorate and have to struggle with that," an impassioned Obama told a crowd. He took issue with "the notion that somehow I ran for public office or members of Congress are in this so they can go around pulling the plug on grandma."