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From Our Own Correspondent: America's Health Insurance Hell

America's Health Insurance Hell

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Stories from China, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia, and the cost of getting sick in America.

Stories from the US, China, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia. Our New York correspondent finds a broken bone can break you financially.

Stories from China, Iraq, Pakistan and Russia and the cost of breaking bones in America.  Healthcare is a very hot issue in the US race for the Democratic presidential nominee. Bernie Sanders is promising to roll out government-run health insurance for everyone.  When Laura Trevelyan broke her wrist, she found navigating the US insurance system both pricey and confusing.

Health concerns of a different kind are making headlines this week as the Coronavirus spreads to more countries and claims more lives.  Determined to cut the number of new infections, China has confined hundreds of millions of people to their homes. Kerry Allen from BBC Monitoring has immersed herself in Chinese cyberspace to gauge the national mood and the authorities response to the crisis.

In Iraq, despite pleas from the Ministry of Health to remain at home, earlier this week demonstrators were still in the streets. Protests have rocked the country since October in response to widespread corruption, poor infrastructure and perceived Iranian intervention in Iraq's internal affairs. Colin Freeman who first visited Iraq 17 years ago has been back to meet an old friend.

In the Pakistani city of Lahore, a building where nationalists once staged meetings against British rule,  is slowly crumbling away. Andrew Whitehead recently managed to make his way in to the decaying Bradlaugh Hall and caught an echo of Lahore’s tempestuous past and at times troubled present.

Wrangel Island was one of the last refuges for woolly mammoths. Today the Russian island is home to Arctic foxes, polar bears, and is visited by more than a hundred species of migratory birds. Scientists flock there too but why honeymooners asks Juliet Rix?

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