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Why did the Tory party in the UK not try to immediately repeal socialized medicine when their party succeeded the Labour government of Attlee?

If you’ll pardon the expression, let’s get real. First, the term ‘socialised medicine’ is hardly used in the UK. We refer to the National…Health…Service. Each of those words is particular, and significant. It is about the Health of the Nation, and it is a Service from which every citizen (or, as we would say, subject (of the Crown)) benefits.Next, the National Health (Note…Health, NOT ‘medical’ or ‘medicine’) Service as enacted in 1947 was not an altruistic whim: it was hard politics. Frankly, there were simply so many sick people that the economy was suffering, and children, the next generation, were not strong enough. Something had to be done.Then, from the the beginning of the NHS, because of the discovery of antibiotics, penicillin initially, people were surviving infections which, just a few years before, were killing thousands. Antibiotics could be prescribed by family doctors and be obtained from pharmacies without money being passed over the counter.There were medical, eye and dental examinations in schools, the first time that most people had experienced anything like this. The health and wellbeing of ordinary people was being taken seriously, and improving.The NHS was, from the very beginning, expensive. Attlee’s Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Gaitskell introduced prescription charges to assist the funding. This led to a rift in the Labour Party which was evident for 15 or 20 years (some would say it is still evident). And, together with the sheer exhaustion of ministers (Ernest Bevin died in office), some of whom had been working without a break since the wartime coalition, plus the Conservatives promise to end food rationing led to the defeat of Attlee’s government in 1951.Why didn’t Churchill’s Conservatives campaign to repeal the National Health Service, or do so when it took office? Well, to quote Clint Eastwood, ‘Wise up, punk.’ Or to put it another way, politics is about the acquisition and exercise of power. In a democracy, you have to get voters to vote for your policies, your party, your people. The VAST majority of the British people, of all political persuasions, wanted, indeed perhaps even loved, the National Health Service. If the Conservatives had destroyed the NHS, it is unlikely that they would ever have held office again.That, I think, answers your question.