1. Project “An Ideal Welfare State”

2. An Ideal Welfare State
Basic principles
Types of benefits
Categories of people
Medical Care
Education
Sources of provision

3. The National Health service
The Welfare State
The Welfare State is a system of caring for citizens of a country through a range of services. The WS operates in five main areas: education; social security; community care; health; housing.
The Government
National Insurance
The National Health service
Social security
The local government
Social services
Housing
Education
Public health

4. Categories of citizens entitled to various benefits
The disabled
Get invalidity pension, receive mobility allowance to pay for transport or to buy a special vehicle.
The retired
Get pension, which depends on the size of salary they got
The unemployed
A person who is out of work for up to a year receive unemployment benefit.
Families
Which have very low income receive family credit
Which have more than one child
Students
Get scholarships, no matter if they are good at studying or not

5. Of course welfare state should pay benefits for its citizens
Of course welfare state should pay benefits for its citizens. But only those who really need it should receive benefits. To my mind homeless shouldn’t get money from the state, because welfare state helps only those who cannot help themselves.

6. Medical Care
Welfare state should pay for medical service. Hospitals should treat for free all the patients, Operations for children whose diseases are dangerous for their health should be paid by the state. Certainly plastic operations shouldn’t be free.

7. Education
Children are the future of every country. State should take care of them. Important parts of children’s life are school and university. Every country wants to have good specialists. That’s why secondary and higher education should be free. From my point of view education should be compulsory for all kids.

8. On the whole most benefits are available to everybody who is entitled to them and it’s very good. In the Welfare State nobody is allowed to live in poverty. Everybody has good medical care and education regardless of their income. Without financial help, many people would have been reduced to begging.

9. What are sources of provision?
In my opinion taxes for businessmen and millionaires should be higher. Why not to help other people who need money more?
All citizens are entitled to pay taxes to support the disabled, the retired, low-income families.

10. As I already said there is no Ideal Welfare state nowadays
As I already said there is no Ideal Welfare state nowadays. But some countries like the USA, Russia and many European countries are very close to be An Ideal Welfare State.