Employers have a bad habit of providing health plans to their employees without engaging in or even thinking about what the root causes of employees’ health problems actually are. This isn’t surprising — even in a time of hypersensitivity to social inequities, employers are rarely informed on what they can do to actively address some of these issues.
But as advisers, we can play a critically important role in helping bring this to their attention and actually do something about it. There’s both a business and moral imperative at play for taking action, and it’s reaching a tipping point that’s hard to ignore.
