Rep. Brad Miller comments in this Greensboro News-Record story about the grassroots pushback against congressional efforts to “reform” healthcare. He uses some colorful language to tell reporter Mark Binker that things are getting misconstrued.

And Rep. Brad Miller, a Raleigh Democrat who represents parts of Greensboro and Rockingham County, said that legislators would have to push back against what he described as misinformation being put forward by groups like this one.

One provision that has been particularly misconstrued, he said, would pay for doctors to talk with terminally ill patients about end-of-life issues.

“It is just howling-at-the-moon crazy to say that provision to allow for occasional end-of-life counseling … is going to have people put down the way we put down an animal,” Miller said.

That idea was put out by Rep. Virginia Foxx, a Winston-Salem Republican, on the House floor last week. She was pitching her own health care reform proposal, which involved tax credits, and contrasting it with Democrats’ plans.

“It will bring down the cost of health care for all Americans … and is pro-life, because it will not put seniors in a position of being put to death by their government.”