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

The Affordable Care Act and the skyrocketing cost of health care.

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.

When it comes to health care, Americans spend a lot more than people in other industrial countries, so why are we less healthy?

Operations and treatments from hip implants to colonoscopies are more expensive here, and costs are rising.

Will Obamacare make a difference? It's similar to Mitt Romney's program in Massachusetts.

Are costs coming down there? Are people satisfied with their health insurance? If the U.S. spent

as much on social programs as those other industrialized countries, could a healthier population

spend less on the medical system? Today's talking point, priceless art stolen by Nazis,

discovered almost by accident.

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To the Point. Dispute over the President's Affordable Care Act has focused attention on the increasing

cost of health care, with some procedures twice as expensive or more in the U.S. as in other

industrialized countries. Why is that happening? Will Obamacare make a difference? Would other spending, other

kinds of spending, lead to a healthier population? Today's talking points on 1400 works, including

unknown paintings by Chagall and Matisse, have been discovered in Germany part of the art stolen

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