Talk:Welfare state in the United Kingdom

message: The article says "most people get free medical prescriptions and treatment", but surely everybody gets free hospital treatment? Wouldnt it be more accurate to say something like "people pay a small fixed prescription charge which is free for those with low incomes. Hospital treatment is free regardless of income." Thanks. Fred (UK citizen and NHS user).—Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.107.224.13 (talk) 18:43, 15 November 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a good idea. Jonpatterns (talk) 10:33, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

text: I have replaced the chart with a Pie Chart template. Unfortunately it only permits 10 segments, so I also amended "Others" in the table, so not to be confused with "Other" in the Pie Chart. Ajcoxuk (talk) 10:48, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
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message: The article may need to be updated after the 8th July 2015. See Budget 2015: Any new material in George Osborne's encore? and David Cameron speech: I'll end welfare merry-go-round. Eating Nicely (talk) 07:14, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible changes in benefits 

message: This section obviously needs a cleanup, but I think it should be moved to a new article - there is just so much data in there and its not particularly easy to read or relevant for the main article. Obviously a few charts would be helpful to see a couple of historical trends but currently there is far too much raw data Absolutelypuremilk (talk) 14:03, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical statistics section 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: no consensus. Although the numerical majority is in favour of the move, as User:Necrothesp points out, the WP:CONSISTENCY argument that buttresses these comments is actually based on a false premise; they point out other articles at different titles – two I found from doing a cursory category search include Social protection in France and Social security in the Republic of Ireland, and there's probably more. From what I can tell, we've basically been okay with going with the common name in each country over a consistent (Americanised) treatment. (closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre (talk) 14:32, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Welfare state in the United Kingdom →  – Welfare in the United Kingdom redirects here. For all other countries, we have articles on welfare in Fooland, not welfare state in Fooland (this is the only article on Wikipedia named "welfare state in Fooland". Sidenote: I'll also propose upmerging (deleting) :Category:Welfare state in the United Kingdom, which is again the only Wikipedia category named as such - we have Welfare in Fooland category tree, but not Welfare state in Fooland. Sidenote 2: editors who comment here may also be interested in the discussion I just started at Talk:Welfare#Social_security_articles? about merging subarticles on welfare and social security in Foolands (note that social security was merged to welfare a while back.And no, just in case anyone is confused, I am not proposing to merge the welfare state article at present, just mentioning some related discussions commenters here may or may not want to review. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:22, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

text: Support per nominator.  Killuminator (talk) 18:04, 18 June 2023 (UTC)

text: Support per nom. estar8806 (talk) ★ 21:00, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 June 2023 

message: It's not called the 'welfare state'. That's a made-up slur designed to denigrate socialism
Delete article or change the name of it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.188.177.247 (talk) 13:06, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: It's not called the 'welfare state'