Underfunding and coronavirus

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though

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in principle it's the best thing that

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exists in britain

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but because

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it's been underfunded for such a long

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time and because of the

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uh

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well the coronavirus has been a a real

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issue which is putting

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another load on top of what was already

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a service which was beginning to

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struggle

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it needs a lot of investment

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i was born before the national health

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service yes and my mother

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um

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was fearful of

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um when i was going to be born

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because her mother had died in

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childbirth and she'd been present she

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was 12.

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so when

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um there was no

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money in the family for

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an expensive

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nursing home my grandfather stumped up

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the money and said you're not having

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the same experience as you watched your

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mother your mother go through yeah

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so i was born before the national health

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but within i was born in 44 and the

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national