1 Varicose veins â restricted blood flow and swelling can lead to skin break down and persistent ulceration.  Dryness â wounds (such as leg ulcers) that are exposed to the air are less likely to heal. The various cells involved in healing, such as skin cells and immune cells, need a moist environment.
Welfare programs should not be eliminated, but the qualifications should be redone. Welfare programs were designed to help those who really need the help. Many people on welfare could not survive without it. Many people on welfare truly need it. However, the system has been abused.
In the next 50 years, spurred by socialist theory and the increasing power of organized labor, state-supported social welfare programs grew rapidly, so that by the 1930s most of the world's industrial nations had some type of social welfare program. Not all governments have equally extensive social welfare systems. Great Britain and the Scandinavian countries, often termed welfare states, have wide-ranging social welfare legislation. Britain's National Health Service, for example, was established (1948) to provide free medical treatment to all.