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If, as mentioned by 2.46 pm, the majority of healthcare spending is spent on the first two years and the last five years of life, then irrespective of how many years people live between these milestones, they will need relatively little healthcare in between. Therefore there is no need to take longevity into account, and AL is indeed ill-informed, as Anon 1.38 pm pointed out.

Based on the figures from Anon 2.46 p.m, every person surviving more than 7 years (i.e. 2 early yrs + 5 last yrs) uses roughly the same funding during their lifetime, which suggests a per capita approach to healthcare funding -- which is neither AL's nor the Black Report's view.
Surely the weight of PH evidence gained over many years in every corner of the globe needs to be heard and adopted here in the UK.