The White House is touting its calculation that 8 million have signed up for health insurance under federal health reform. But a key question is whether enough of them will be young people, a group that often blew off insurance before, and are needed to make the economics of the plan work. Marketplace’s Nancy Marshall-Genzer joins us to explain.
The U.S. is pressuring Japan to remove import tariffs on pork and beef as part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership — a proposed new free trade agreement being discussed by twelve countries on the Pacific Rim. Next week when President Obama goes to Tokyo this issue will be high on the agenda. Japan is the world’s top importer of pork — Japanese eat expensive tenderloins and cutlets deep fried into crispy katsu. But that agreement won’t be easy. Japan has traditionally protected its agricultural commodities.
A case going before the Supreme Court next Tuesday pits traditional television broadcasters against Aereo, which lets customers record broadcast TV in their local markets and then watch programs via television, computer, tablet or smartphone. The technology that makes it possible is a farm of thousands of tiny antennas, each smaller than a nickel. The case – in which some say billions of dollars are potentially at stake – hinges on what constitutes a public broadcast versus a private one, under copyright law.
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