17.315 Recitation Reaction Paper In class, we discussed the multitude of factors that influenced the longevity gap between impoverished individuals and more affluent individuals. This also overlapped with our discuss of obesity and how while it is a useful analogy to compare tobacco to obesity, it is not a perfect analogy as there are countless caveats in the obesity crisis that have no counterparts in the argument used against tobacco. Similar to obesity, it seems like there are caveats that influences the health disparity between the health care across to different populations of people. According to the New York Times article, Annie Lowrey provides the contrasts of income and health care between two countries separated by “350 miles,
