Nowhere in that report does it say it is "garbage", as you suggest it is. Yes it is not as good as some other wealthy countries, but it is by no means "garbage

Nowhere in that report does it say it is "garbage", as you suggest it is. Yes it is not as good as some other wealthy countries, but it is by no means "garbage", e.g. on page 35: "The results show that although the UK does well by global standards, it performs poorly compared with the other developed countries in our comparison group". "..does well by global standards.." completely contradicts the idea that it is "garbage". There are some interesting comments in the document suggesting that some of the health outcomes might actually be social which was news to me an quite interesting - e.g. the british "stiff upper lip"/"keep calm and carry on" might be causing people to defer medical help, or that the large income disparity could be skewing it. Interesting & worrying stuff.