“...if you can defund it, it won't be in good shape. And there is a standard technique of privatization, namely defund what you want to privatize. Like when Thatcher wanted to defund the railroads, first thing to do is defund them, then they don't work and people get angry and they want a change. You say okay, privatize them and then they get worse.” - Noam Chomsky<p>This is 100% the case with the UKs rail system, and our national health service is being underfunded at and amazing rate. I always think Jeremy Hunt looks like he’s just received a particularly distressing colonoscopy which I suppose is why he hates doctors and nurses so much.<p>NHS costs less than half the cost of the American system for similar outcomes and it worked really really well when funded at the level of other European countries under the last Labour government.