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

Health care reform and questions of faith.

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

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

40 days for health reform. It's a campaign based on the premise that affordable access to quality health care is a moral imperative.

Jews, Catholics, and evangelical Christians are backing TV ads, urging people of faith to get behind congressional action.

But other Catholic and evangelical Christians don't see government as the good Samaritan,

especially if taxpayer money would pay for abortions.

They contend that a government overhaul would ration health care,

which they also see as morally wrong.

What about other arguments pro and con?

Are they based more on faith than they are on reason? First,

here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio

International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and

Catherine T. McArthur Foundation. Hello again, Mormon-Ale, back with To the Poet.

As the congressional recess continues, debate over health care reform is becoming more polarized and extreme.

President Obama's approval ratings are taking a hit. Both sides contend it all boils down to morality.

Are they open to reason? Or is it a matter of faith? First, this news update.

Yesterday, the Federal Reserve gave its most upbeat assessment of the economy since the Great Recession began.

But today there's news of a different kind.

Unemployment increased more than expected last week, and despite cash for clunkers, overall consumer spending, declined.

Kelly Evans, is economics reporter for the Wall Street Journal,

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