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But before you do that, here's Tim Halford.

Hello and welcome to a new series of More or Less,

the programme which speaks softly but carries a big slide rule.

This week we'll hear from a man who says he can fix the economy in one fell swoop.

I can, at a stroke save £90bn from healthcare at today's prices,

lift from the nation's sagging shoulders a vast part of the burden of pensions,

public and private and of an aged population.

Whoa!

I got half the state.

The newest member of the More or Less team, Phil Kemp,

will tell us what's really happening to NHS funding in England and Phil in a nutshell?

Well, it's pretty complicated.

Too complicated for nut shells?

Way too complicated.

It always is.

Oh, baby, what do you want to go?

And as the club unwittingly founded by Robert Johnson's 73 years ago claims another member,

we'll find out whether superstar musicians really are more likely to die at the age of 27.

First, for connoisseurs of big numbers,

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