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Dead Men don’t claim IB
a few lines from the IFW debate 1994 - I think I was delivering Robbie Williams’ TV at that point.
Secretary Lilley.
“I believe that, from those questions, the question arises whether we are becoming less healthy as a nation. Is there really an epidemic of incapacity? Of course there is not. The nation’s health has been improving. Let me give a number of indicators of that.
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There has been a dramatic reduction in incapacity caused by peptic ulcers. There has been a marked reduction in the number of strokes, roughly halving the number of people aged under 65 who have died from them since 1970.”
No one seemed to have pointed out dead men don’t claim IB.