With so much debate swirling about end-of-life care, Ted Serenski of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants discusses the importance of a living will. What is a living will? Why do you need one? What does it cover? How specific should it be? How can it help your family deal with medical and financial decisions? How easy or hard is it to put together?
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On Monday, the Obama administration filed papers formally challenging the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The law gives the states freedom to recognize or not recognize marriages performed in other states – a critical prerogative as the gay marriage push continues across the country. So how can Obama work to overturn a law he’s sworn to uphold? Will this go all the way to the Supreme Court? Will this be a landmark case that eventually determines what a family is in this country? We ask Mathew Staver, chairman and founder of Liberty Counsel.
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Over the weekend, President Obama and some of his subordinates said the public option was not an ‘essential’ component of health care reform legislation. Since when? Can they be taken seriously that they are willing to scrap the government-run health care program? Why are they so suddenly willing to embrace health care co-operatives? Are they the same thing by a different name? What other components of the health care plan should disturb us? We ask Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute.
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Virginia Sen. Jim Webb became the first U.S. senator in more than a decade to visit Burma – which the ruling junta calls Myanmar. That fact alone shows the detriment done by this trip, according to former Reagan and Bush 41 aide Jim Jacobsen, who is now president of Christian Freedom International. Why does he see this trip as a terrible decision by Sen. Webb? What does he believe will result from this contact? How brutal are conditions inside Burma?
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Just a week ago, passengers were stuck on a plane on the ground in Minnesota for nine hours with no food or working toilets. Why does this happen? What should have been done differently? Whay are passenger advocates specifically wanting from Congress to make sure this does not keep happening? We ask Kate Hanni, executive director of flyersrights.org.
Listen here and share your thoughts on a passenger bill of rights or share a nightmarish story you’ve had on the airlines.
Washington’s top parody troupe takes a frightening look into a future with government-run health care.
President Obama says Americans who are currently insured can keep their plan under his brand of reform. Not true! Patients advocate Betsy McCaughey says look at Page 16 of of the House bill and it’s clear that these great choices Obama speaks of don’t exist and we will all be forced onto the government plan within a few years. She also says the Obama plan will absolutely mean diminished and neglectful care for seniors.
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President Obama doesn’t mention it much anymore, but the threat of terrorism remains very real and is growing right here in the U.S. What are honor killings and why are they on the rise in this country? Why should Obama be out there repeatedly defining this war – who we’re fighting and why we’re fighting? And why should there be no consideration given for the release of one of the Lockerbie bombers despite his allegedly deteriorating health? We ask all these questions and get passionate answers from Brigitte Gabriel, author of ‘They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It’.
Louisiana Sen. David Vitter discusses a new report showing that the Democratic energy plan would cost the U.S. two million jobs and lead to a shrinking of the economy. Why does Vitter agree? What would the bill do to his state? What is his response to cap and trade supporters who say this bill is based on ‘settled science’? And of course we’ll get his thoughts on health reform.
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Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation says the government currently spends about $26,000 per household every year. But if President Obama gets his wish on health care and energy reform, that number rises to $39,000 per year. So with record deficits already a reality, guess who pays the difference? That’s right! Riedl says the average family will be taxed an additional $13,000 per year (through a variety of means) to pay for this big government agenda.
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