Rural Health Systems and Legal Care: Opportunities for Initiating and Maintaining Legal Care After the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

HEALTH insurance laws; HEALTH insurance & economics; CIVIL rights; DIFFUSION of innovations; HEALTH services accessibility; HEALTH status indicators; NEEDS assessment; POVERTY; RURAL health; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; AT-risk people; INSTITUTIONAL cooperation; HUMAN services programs; PATIENT Protection & Affordable Care Act; HEALTH & social status

ILLINOIS; UNITED States

The article discusses the role, needs and strength of a rural health system in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). Topics discussed include the leveraging, and synchronizing community benefits requirements alongside medical-legal partnership (MLP) practice and implementation, importance of accessing government-financed benefits in rural areas along with the rural health delivery system. Other topics include rural disparities, inequalities and economic disadvantage.