Gestor bibliográfico Crisis y Salud

The excellent article from McKee and Stuckler (1) on the history and opportunities for neoliberalism to destroy the welfare state in the UK, and creating conditions that attempted against social cohesion and solidarity reflects us on the situation in other European countries, such as Spain. Welfare state in Spain had begun to install more recently than in other western European countries. After a long dictatorship, the Spanish society and economy inherited a financial sector very protected and conservative, an insufficient and regressive fiscal system, and scarcity on social protection and benefits. In the end, there was a much less welfare state than in other European countries(2). In this situation any setback to the advance on the welfare state causes a probably greater backward movement than in other contexts.