From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

Health care, politics, and the law.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International.

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

President Obama's

health care reform is being implemented nationwide, even though federal judges disagree on a major

provision. Is it constitutional to require healthy people to buy insurance even if they don't

want to? Two judges say yes, one says no, and others are yet to be heard from. The issue probably

will be resolved by a single

justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, but will it make any difference? Would health care reforms still go

into effect without the mandate Republicans hate? Would support grow for the public option Democrats love?

I'm a reporter's notebook later on the luxury markets aregery Markets are being transformed by the People's Republic.

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and its campaign for American workers. More at rockfound.org. Hello again, Mormon-Aulney, back with

To the Point. Last spring, Congress passed health care reform, and the states are putting it into

effect. But the battle continues in the political arena and in the courts. Are President Bush's

judicial appointees changing constitutional law?

Will Republican challenges to health care reform backfire in favor of the Democrats?

On reporter's notebook, luxury goods are being snapped up in the U.S. and Europe by free spenders from China.

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