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

Health care reform and the presidential campaign.

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

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Health care is one of the issues cited as most important by potential voters of both parties.

Presidential candidates all trumpet their plans. But Democrats and Republicans sound as if they're

in different worlds. One side advocates universal health care, while the other warns against

government interference and socialized

medicine. On to the point, are they really as different as they sound? When the election finally is

over, what are the chances of bridging the gap? Will necessary compromise fall victim to political

polarization on Capitol Hill? On a porter's notebook later on, automakers say they're going green. Do they really mean it? 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, Warren Olney, back with To the Point. Health care is on the top of the list

for potential voters of both parties in the presidential campaign. But Republicans and Democrats

sound as if they're in different worlds. On To the Point, when the election's over, will they be

able to compromise? Or will partisanship prevent the compromise required by two-party rule?

On reporter's notebook, as the Los Angeles auto show opened today, the theme was going green.

Is it really green washing?

First this news update, immigration reform went nowhere this year.

And this morning, as the Senate and Congress cast their last votes before Thanksgiving recess, partisan differences stopped the farm bill and emergency funding for the war in Iraq.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi says the Pentagon may have to wait till next year.

Ron Brownstein is a syndicated columnist, political director for Atlantic

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