part of that, in double life issues will be addressed. during the health-care debate, it got a lot of traction. looks like a provision of this still exists. if you want to weigh in, here are the numbers listed below for republicans, democrats, and independence. you can also contact us via twitter. you can also e-mail us. here is a story by robert. we will read more from this. the numbers are listed at the bottom of the screen if you want to weigh in on this. you can also reach us on e-mail. and we are on twitter. a little more on this before we take some calls. under this room, doctors can rule doctors canwil make certain recommendations. as we look at stories about this new provision of medicare and end of life care, you can call in. we will take a call now. independent line, what do you think about this? caller: this sounds like exactly what they were denying earlier. i cannot believe the total disrespect for senior citizens in this country. it is very disheartening that this is happening in america. host: salt lake city utah is next. caller: i have a disease that can kill me right now. i am getting medication for medicare. i was told if it is not working -- i have a serious disease right now. they said if the medicine does not work they can cut off the madison after a month. this madison will keep me alive. does this go before a panel? can they stop this? host: i do not know the answer, but let me give you some political context of this story. you can read along on your computer on the new york times. north carolina, and the pan . good morning. caller: this seems to miss the inches -- issue. the issue of healthcare -- what we need to do is abolish these programs altogether. if you can afford it, pay for it. if not, you are out of luck. it is that simple. the more i have to pay for others' health care around the world, the more difficult it is for me to pay for my own. host: seattle, washington. democrat. caller: in the insurance that does not cover in the life is not insurance. that is part of any basic insurance policy. if you really want to look at the death panelists, look at arizona. their budgets are being cut so bad people have been cut off for transplants. it is considered a luxury now and it is not covered. host: what do you make of this as a regulation? caller: i do not understand the question. host: it showing up as part of regulation. caller: it is a necessary part of any comprehensive health care package. it was demonized by republicans, because democrats did not give the message out saying, this is not a debt panel, but anything that distracts. i challenge anyone who calls and it has good insurance and save it to their insurance does not have end of life management. that is part of the insurance package. it has been demonized by the same people who showed up at the last health care rally carrying signs saying get to the government of by medicaid. it is insane. too many people do not quite understand what they are talking about in my opinion. host: kansas city, missouri. caller: this is the right conversation that we need to be having. we have to talk about and a light at some point no matter if you are a democrat or republican. end of life is extremely expensive care. i see this every day. i tried to figure out what is the right thing to do for a patient. and we must have a national dialogue about what end of life is like. we have to start the conversation. this is one place to start it. host: you are ok to have this conversation. caller: we have to start somewhere. this is probably not the ideal place. i think that would be over the dinner table at a thanksgiving gathering. have been honest conversation about us getting older. have we talked about what we want at the end of life? host: pa., democrats line. caller: i think a couple of things are happening. medical technology is advancing rapidly. we are keeping people alive beyond what they probably should be. cover a population is booming. that will cost in health care hours. it should not be called and death panel but engaging with your doctor. improving patient and doctor relationship. that is what this is doing. you can make the right decisions for you and your family. those conversations may become more and more complicated. i think it is time to have these conversations. host: thanks. here is another comment . sarasota, fla., in the pan . -- independent kleiline. caller: they made advanced planning and it must be done with an attorney. it is regarding alzheimer's. but these people had an advanced plan with an attorney that my husband and child could make medical decisions for both the mother and father, which they did. he had surgery around 90 years old. he cannot speak. they had a legal documents and it said they did not want to be resuscitated for force fed. the mother elected not to eat any food for five days. the nurses kept them comfortable. this is important. he must have documents made in the state where you live. caller: what do you think about this being a conversation as a beneficiary of medicare? caller: i talk to my doctor about this all the time. she cannot charge us for it. coding, when i have tests, if it has a code. if i have a conversation, my doctor does not charge to talk to us about it. host: we will have to leave it there. i appreciate the perspective. we are looking at fund raisers for legislation. the wrote numerous times this year that members of congress were trying to take critical steps to write new law . they scrutinized lawmakers involved in key pieces of legislation. you can find this story on the washington post. back to our discussion on medicare offering voluntary in the light counseling. buffalo, new york, republican line. caller: i am under the age of 30. one question they asked me this. they want to know if you want to be resuscitated for on a feeding tube and kept alive. that is what this boils down to. it should be recognized in every state and by every insurance company. people can have these situations at any age. a living will can be filled out and you have a witness sign it. they can take it with them if paramedics pick you up. there is a sticker you put on your window that says you have this. i do not understand why this argument has gotten so misconstrued. there are people like sarah palin that are misinformed and poisoning the minds of people with this. people need to research these things for themselves before forming an opinion instead of just going what -- with what one person says, because that may be the popular opinion at the time. host: 12 somalis have been detained on suspicion of terrorist activities. they were seized on friday. this was in the rotterdam area. prosecutors say the suspects are age 19-48. one resident comes from denmark. democrats line is next. caller: i think my statement has already been made by one caller who said this gives permission for the doctors to consult with you about this or have a conversation with you about this. they can get paid to make doctors more willing to assist you in making these decisions. i will add another thing to this. it is being made by your relationship with your doctor and the insurance policy you hold. i know people with means and no means at all. if you do not have the means, you do not have the health care. this has been going on for years. somehow, in the future, i think it is a liability issue for doctors to be relieved of any in liability if you do not have a record to specify the type of medicare you want. host: we want to tell you about cover newsmakers per gram of which comes on after this. one person had a chance to sit down and talk to reporters. he spoke about serving as a former political director and was asked about the current condition and if he had a role in its current condition. >> it was financial and not political. many of my predecessors felt a great deal of knowledge academic and practical about how to run these her grams. -- programs. how the republicans run these programs. these parties were traditionally funded by the rnc. the driver of the problems was not our ability to put certain things in the field. host: a candidate for the rnc on our newsmakers program which comes on after this. you can watch that interview on line on our website. independent line. caller: thanks for c-span. i am a long time listener but a first-time caller. this is the republican spin machine kicking into high gear right before medicare is going to start paying for primary- care. well as visits that patients would not get -- i know they pay for medicare, this is just republicans spend. people have always gone to their doctors to discuss these end of life issues with their primary care physician. the only difference is that medicare will pay for it. if you want to know the real provision of the health-care bill, go to the health-care dot gov website. host: here is another perspective. fairfield, calif., a republican line. caller: i am surprised that people think this is about death panels. they talk about republicans fans. here is a fact. you read one part from an article about people trying to keep this hush hush. and when government is doing something sneaky, something is amiss. i want to remind people that as an analogy, if a young lady goes to an abortion clinic, they have a conversation. these people are often cut worst into the way that people want them to go. it is 92 think that the government will coerce people to these in the life discussions. host: next caller. caller: that last guy spoke like a true republican. you have had some calls from missouri. i have been a power of attorney twice. i have a power of attorney. my fiancee passed away. she made me and her sister power of attorney. she did not come out of a coma. it was hurtful, but we did it. i was power of attorney for my neighbor. i go to the be a. -- veteran affairs. nursing a and st. john's hospital talked to me about this. you can get your information. it is not death panels. it is your wishes at the end of life so that you are not hanging on life support and stuff like that. if you do not have that, they can not hold it. i do not want to be fed through a tube or what ever. my fiancee passed away, in she passed in a day, but they kept her alive until her kids got there. i thought it was brutal in a way. they can put a spin on it. host: new york. caller: i am a care giver here in new york. these are not a death panels. it is the assurance of quality of life at the end of your life. i'd like to bring up something that is mandatory by new york state which is the question if you want to quit smoking. doctors get $25 to ask you if you will quit smoking and if you want to be on the patch. back to the subject, you have to understand that. i see people every day who are lying in bed with something feeding them and everything for them, because the kids cannot give up on them and they never had a health care directives lined up ahead of time. host: the "boston globe." host: this is part of a longer piece in "the boston globe" this morning. alabama on the republican line. caller: how are you doing this morning? happy new year. i would like to relate a personal experience i had with my former mother in law. she was visiting with my ex-wife in connecticut and had a stroke. they did not have this material. in fact, she ended up getting transferred back to birmingham. i went by to see her. my ex-wife and called me and said she was about to pass on. she told me what hospital she was that. i went there and i asked the nurse in the room and i walked in. i could not even recognize her. she had been in this condition 18 months or more of being fed, as they say. i had a reaction at that time. it is a fund-raising for the hospitals. that is a harsh thing to say, but what i am hearing is that you get into the hospital, you are sick, and you are able to go home, the hospital has a steady stream of income. that is where my concerns are about this. i hate to say that. i am a republican and i believe in maximizing profits and all of those kinds of things, but i do not know if it is morally right to do that do the pain and suffering of other people. thank you for your time and i appreciate the efforts to make. host: honolulu on our democratic line. caller: hello there. i think everyone is missing the point. doctors are paid and are there to help us with our illnesses. they are not there to make political, moral judgments or to help us do that. our families, our pastors, and our attorneys to those kinds of things. the more the doctors have talked less about end of life, this, and that they are not taking care of the year emphysema or other medical needs. this is completely in the wrong trauma -- wrong realm of life. doctors should take care of health issues and the attorneys, families, the pastor's should take care of the moral issues. mahalo and happy new year. host: in iraq they're going to resume exports of oil. according to this story at says, "-- also below that, on another story out of yemen. hot springs, arkansas. betty on our independent line. thank you for waiting. caller: i'm 66 years old on medicare. i am in good health. i plan to immediately take advantage of the end of life planning. i want my options explained to me by an expert in the medical field. my father died in 1960's from terminal cancer. the minute he went into a coma they began to treat him. i heard him screaming and moaning in that,. it was horrible. i do not want to put it on my children to pull the plug. i wanted to be my choice and my decision. that is all i have to say. host: the what the doctors to make a legal decisions? do you think it is a legal and medical-share dax caller: -- medical issue? caller: i believe that they can give me the whole story in as a medical professional. i am going immediately to get this done. host: cincinnati. democratic line. caller: how are you? pedro, people have, like i do, and mother. my mother is 80. if you're putting them in a nursing home after surgery, it is already there. my mother has had several joints replaced. in each case when she went into the nursing home, you have a durable power of attorney, medical power of attorney. we have it discussed this with the doctor what we wanted to do. those papers came from my attorney and were faxed to the nursing homes since i had the power of attorney. when they got to the nursing home, we had already discussed it with mom. she told us what she wanted to do if she went code blue or into some kind of end of life situation. that is voluntary. if you put your mother, father, or whoever -- i have a sister in a nursing home. to put them in a reputable nursing home and you have input with the doctor and your attorney, you will come across the question regardless. there is no gun to your head saying whether you have to do it or not. as far as the regulation being there, in many states it is already there. that is all i have to say. have a good day. host: that may get this right. -- let me get this right. wisconsin? did i get that right? caller: you got that right. you can have your end of life plan signed, sealed, and delivered and they do not necessarily follow it. when my father died, he said yes to something and we did not know that it voided everything that he had signed. the doctors had coerced him into saying yes. he had pneumonia. he had discussed this in his lungs. -- abspestos. they said they put him on a ventilator that it would help his lungs. he had a no code. he could not breathe without walking two steps. he said he had lived long enough. he was 85. as soon as they coerced him for the ventilator, he finally said yes, he had said, "no, no, no," we found out that made no land avoid everything. they went to have the surgery done, if he would have gone into cardiac arrest they would have had to resuscitate him. host: in "the washington post" this morning, there are two graphic showing the airport scanners. one is called a millimeter wave which revolves around the. it works differently from what is called a back scatter. these both emit radio waves. one image radio waves. the backscatter immense low- level x-rays. there is a story accompanying the graphics saying that more of these types of scanners are going to be located in the airports across the united states. long island, new york to come on our republican line. joseph, good morning. caller: my father is a veteran on medicare. host: gainesville, florida. on our democratic line. caller:yes? i think it is a shame that is right when not jobs that have inflamed and scared people. i think people should educate themselves about what this is truly about. they understand this is a good thing. this is the case of petty politics trumping the best interests of america. after that terry schivao fiasco, i had papers called -- put together so i would not live on a feeding tube for 30 days. i would rather just passed. thank you. host: san diego, california. caller: thank you, c-span. five years ago i was admitted to nursing care facility. they requested that i do make an advance directive. i had a public notary come in and i signed my dnr. my sister has my power of attorney and i feel comfortable. i made a decision. if it remains that i am the one able to make that decision, i am fine with the whole program. i just do not want the decision made for me. every member of my family i understand that it had a signed and notarized dnr because that is my wish. i do not want to restart the machine. i do not want to be a financial or emotional struggle for my family. my father passed away two years ago in a hospice program. that is the most pleasant way for that situation to end. he did not want another open heart surgery. he was 81 years old. there was no way that his body could have handled another open heart surgery. he just decided, in my opinion, to have hospice care so it takes the hospital out of the program. host: nashville, tenn., on the democratic line. nashville, are you there? go ahead. caller: yes. i just had a comment. there was a person two minutes ago was saying that people who can afford or do not have the insurance that, "well, too bad." medical insurance is a right. it is a right for everyone who lives here. i do agree with the fact that all of us should be planning ahead, making sure we have the documentation with our primary care doctors, and then the other doctors that we may see for various situations, and also making sure a copy is in the our main medical records with whatever hospital we choose. host: last call from missouri. caller: yes, and i am a retired paramedic in the state of missouri. we have advanced directive information online through the state. i think people needed to know what this legislation is doing which is something that we already have in place in our state. you just need to fill out the paperwork. something that is even more important that i want to pass on to other people is like me, as a health-care professional, if i get there and you have an advance directive in the field i need to see that advanced directive. you need to hand me an original copy or a certified duplicate copy of the original or i cannot honor that agreement. this has actually happened to me. i did have the advanced directive in my hand. i was transporting a patient 30 miles. the patient died in the back of my ambulance but i did have all the paperwork in my hand. it is extremely important to do this. host: that is the last call we will take on that segment. we appreciate those who participated getting their input. this is how the rest of the show will shake out. we will look at efforts to hire military people after they leave this service. we will talk to someone who deal directly with that. also, we will address the fcc. they passed new rules regarding the internet. it is commonly known as net neutrality. will join us. coming up, we will look at the 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