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This article is about the UK where the NHS has been chronically underfunded for the last decade.

The NHS has been chronically underfunded for 40 years.

In 2007, before the crash, after 10 years of New Labour, the U.S. spent 15% of its GDP on healthcare. German 10%, the Netherlands 9%.

The UK spent 7.4%.

In fact it's over the last 10 years that the UK has begun to catch up with the rest of Europe.

Life Expectancy at Birth

Netherlands 81.6

U.K. 81.2

Germany 81.1

USA 78.6

Which just goes to show how superior the NHS is. It’s still underfunded though.