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Health care, the Congress, and presidential politics.

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

A daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

As promised, during last year's campaign, House Republicans have voted unanimously to repeal the president's health care

reform. Nobody thinks the Senate will go along, so Republicans are trying to keep the issue alive,

while Democrats trumpet the benefits, they say, would be lost. As both parties strategize for next year's presidential campaign,

attorneys general in 26 states have taken the matter to federal court.

What are the political risks for both sides?

What's at stake for the federal deficit, job growth and business,

and coverage for 30 million uninsured Americans?

On a reporter's notebook later on, Michelle Obama, Walmart, and

Healthy Foods. 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 Alleney, back with To the Point. Health care reform is front and center again on Capitol Hill with big-time political risks for both Democrats and Republicans. We'll look at Republican efforts to repeal for the President's health care reform and the Democratic response. On reporter's notebook, a splashy announcement today by Walmart endorsed by Michelle Obama, will it mean better nutrition for American children? First, this news update. After last night's toasts and tributes at the Obama White House, China's president, Ujin-Tao, went to Capitol Hill today, but there wasn't much give and take with leaders of the House and the Senate. That's according to Halene Cooper of the New York Times. Good to have you on our program. Hi, Warren. How's it going? Good, thank you. Speaker Boehner didn't go to the state dinner last night. He gave the impression that he was going to have a substantive conversation with President Hu today. What, in fact, did occur? Well, Speaker Boehner was one of the two House lawmakers

at the during the House meeting who actually spoke, and he raised a lot of trade issues,

and he raised North Korea with President who, Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic House leader,

also raised human rights. But they were the only two people who really were able to speak. I mean,

the format of those meetings is such that when you factor in the translation and how long it takes

and the fact that President Hutz has a tendency to spend a lot of time speaking from a prepared text,

you don't really get, it's not really the type of format that allows a lot of the speakers who were there and who wanted to, you know, sort of take a bite out of his hide, I think, a chance to talk. So there were a lot of grumpy people after the meeting. Did he conduct a kind of filibuster? I don't know if I would call it a filibuster that may be going a little far, but he does, you know, he has

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