To reduce health inequities, clinics need lawyers on the team [kpihp.org]
By Ellen Lawton and Bethany Hamilton, Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy, October 20, 2021 Social ills, such as substandard housing and food insecurity, fuel sicknesses that our health care system must then address. What we don’t often consider—but should—is that many of these social and structural problems are also legal problems. As such, they may have legal solutions. Health care workers (and health care budgets) feel the brunt of these injustices. When there isn’t enough safe...