id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-518 Welfare state - Wikipedia .html text/html 11963 1705 64 Even though the country is often rated comparably economically free, Sweden's mixed economy remains heavily influenced by the legal framework and continual renegotiations of union contracts, a government-directed and municipality-administered system of social security, and a system of universal health care that is run by the more specialized and in theory more politically isolated county councils of Sweden.[citation needed] During the Great Depression, the welfare state was seen as a "middle way" between the extremes of communism on the left and unregulated laissez-faire capitalism on the right.[3] In the period following World War II, some countries in Western Europe moved from partial or selective provision of social services to relatively comprehensive "cradle-to-grave" coverage of the population. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-518.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-518.txt