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The Real Story: What's the Best Healthcare System?

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Protesters against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act

30/06/2017 GMT

What's the Best Healthcare System?

BBC World Service - The Real Story, What's the Best Healthcare System?

Cost, coverage, choice - the trade-offs needed to make a healthy nation

Cost, coverage, choice - some of the trade-offs needed to make a healthy nation. As the US Congress struggles to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act - widely known as Obamacare - we ask what makes for a good healthcare system and how does society as a whole get value for money? Is it an insurance based system, like many used world wide, or is a single payer system like Britain's National Health System better and more fair?

(Photo: People protesting against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Credit: Getty Images)

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