We’re Asking Health Care to Fix Something It Didn’t Break

Author(s): Ellen Lawton, Dr. Megan Sandel
Published in: The Huffington Post

We’re starting to understand that poverty causes illness, not just for individuals, but for whole communities. Yet we talk about the effects of substandard housing, poor nutrition, and violence in a vacuum separate from the laws and policies that create and perpetuate these problems in the first place. And then we ask health care to clean up the mess.

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