Insurance provider wades into LA's homelessness problem [SCPR.com]

Samantha Sangenito 4/17/174:00 AM

As part of a growing movement that looks at stable housing as a health issue, a local insurance provider is wading into Los Angeles' efforts to end homelessness.

L.A. Care, the county's largest MediCal health plan, announced Thursday it will donate $20 million over the next five years to a program that houses homeless people who have medical issues.

"The research is showing that if people don't have basic needs like food and shelter, their health-care expenses are going to be higher because you can't really get them into a routine of health prevention or consistent treatments of conditions they might have," said L.A. Care CEO John Baackes.

[For more of this story, written by Rina Palta, go to http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/...as-homelessness-pro/]

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