They solved a lot of issues with patient-doctor confidentiality, which was a big problem at the time. They have implemented laws and regulations to give the patient more control over their healthcare. They began to treat their patients like human beings instead of experiments. However, not everything they did was good. I thought it was sad that the HeLa cells gave so much to everyone else, yet the Lacks didn't reap any of the benefits from the HeLa cells. Healthcare providers were making millions of dollars selling HeLa cells, but the family of the person who provided those cells couldn't even afford medical insurance. Any doctor or researcher could have easily created a fund for Henrietta's family, given all that Henrietta's cells have done for them and for the field of medical research in general. Health workers took advantage of the fact that the Lacks did not have a high school education and did not understand what was happening to Henrietta's cells. If the family had been aware of the profits the researchers were making, they could have fought for the rights to parts of them and used them to improve their own