Basing the analysis on the period 1945-1990, what judgment can be made of the Welfare State in Britain?

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[...] That situation considerably damaged the public image of the Health Service and largely of the Welfare State. In the meantime, many British people had to invest into private pension schemes which have proved to be more efficient in every aspect. In this new period, austerity predictions were at sight. Some independent Trusts started managing the hospital cares5. If with this compromise, the whole organization finally slightly improved, the access to elective care is still regarded as a complicated process symbolizing the failure of a certain vision of the Welfare. [...]

[...] Thatcher's neoliberal government has been a key point into the British Welfare State's future. She helped reducing its social goal by reforming and applying some business principles3 to an already sensitive sector brought close to the breaking. At that time, it also started raising some concerns about some growing health inequalities. For example, a Children's hospital started the crisis when some vital heart operations had been postponed for lack of fundings. The Welfare State was no more achieving its primary goals. [...]

[...] In order to protect the British needs, the Labour also quickly aimed at taking the control of the economy, the State enforced to nationalize the British industry, particularly the key sectors such as the power industry, the transport, the steel and the iron. These initiatives were first greatly welcomed, especially when they were considered as more human than the previous directions. However, they started little by little to be questioned. Attlee, the New Prime Minister worked hard to create the National Health Service in 1948, which is still today the most brilliant action of the British party and the Welfare State's initiatives. This action also forms the key axe of the British modern social system. [...]

[...] At that time, the nation was all in one a manufacturing industry and the social growing power was perceptive. To put it short, the Welfare State's golden age was contextualized. With high and constant expenditure, it has cancelled itself out. Now, far from this supportive background, we have the remnants of a brilliant and idealistic view. Although, the necessary political reforms have been quite unefficient to fully help restaure this English institution and if the Welfare State has definitively passed, it is still referred to as a great creation : a perfect idea with imperfect means. [...]

[...] Basing the analysis on the period 1945-1990, what judgment can be made of the Welfare State in Britain? If many people, like the American political commentator Monica Crowley do consider that « Healthcare is the cornerstone of the socialist state. It is the crown jewel of the welfare state », the Welfare State embodying indeed a full part of the British history forging also its culture, the Brits may have another opinion about it. All along its critical background, from the explosive birth in 1945 to the political protests in the 90s concerning its reasons to be, it seems that the social way in Britain has been as long as complicated. [...]