And so in 1948, the establishment of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) expanded the earlier ex-soldier only scheme to all Australians. The Labor government who introduced this had hoped to introduce further national healthcare measures like those of Britain's National Health Service, however they were voted out of office in 1949, before they had sufficient senate support to pass the legislation. The incoming Menzies Liberal government wound back the PBS, with it continuing in a more limited form than originally planned.