Fair enough at face value Don that isn't what she said. The Daily M*il paraphrased her and left out the base for the estimation, which isn't normally a great way out.

The problem with healthcare is that you have to plan on prediction. The good news is that public health is rather good at it. In my old patch when I chaired an authority, our director of public health said we should budget for 17 of a particular emergency intervention for a given year. Out of a population of 230, 000, this seemed too impressive to me. I was wrong and I won't get churlish over our having to fund 18 not 17. (At £200k per patient, we did have to ensure the slush fund was intact. ..)

None of this is relevant to the issue here though. A newspaper misquotes in order to get a story. A fool likes this story because it somehow feeds his hatred of people different to him. Sadly it started as good news. ...