According to Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech, he mentioned “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Compare to inequality of sex and race, the inequality in health care is worse from several aspects: causes, impacts and consequences. Since not so many people are aware of how severe the inequality in health care is, it is hidden for a long period. As a matter of what African-Americans have been suffering from for centuries, the injustice in health care has been proved as the severest unequal issue which may cause opportunities gone but this form of injustice is turning to latent instead of exposed to the public. None of all kinds of inequality are more severe than the unequal section in
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Unfortunately, sometimes unequal treatments cause its loss. According to an Inequality Organization research, inequality and health have been successfully proved that they are strongly related. Within the research, there is a cross-national comparison chart which is of life expectancy and the varying severity of inequalities. The chart indicates that the countries with lower Gini coefficient have longer life expectancy (Mendelson, A. 2015). The researcher says that greater inequality leads to worse health outcomes. From another perspective to see inequalities, normally people who have no privilege are suffering from privation. CNN reported in 2013, and they showed that 29% of the lower income people couldn’t afford the medication they need. It is without doubt that most of the wealthy can easily access better treatments and more choices of doctors. Therefore, they will have better health for their whole life. On the contrary, poor people will be responded differently resulted from their lower status. David Radley, a senior scientist at the Commonwealth Fund said: “Higher income people are in a better position to take advantage of the health care system.” This is not the end of the consequences caused by inequalities. As what the wealthy can take to their health care, the poor may no longer have the chance to get equal treatments. The
Unfortunately, sometimes unequal treatments cause its loss. According to an Inequality Organization research, inequality and health have been successfully proved that they are strongly related. Within the research, there is a cross-national comparison chart which is of life expectancy and the varying severity of inequalities. The chart indicates that the countries with lower Gini coefficient have longer life expectancy (Mendelson, A. 2015). The researcher says that greater inequality leads to worse health outcomes. From another perspective to see inequalities, normally people who have no privilege are suffering from privation. CNN reported in 2013, and they showed that 29% of the lower income people couldn’t afford the medication they need. It is without doubt that most of the wealthy can easily access better treatments and more choices of doctors. Therefore, they will have better health for their whole life. On the contrary, poor people will be responded differently resulted from their lower status. David Radley, a senior scientist at the Commonwealth Fund said: “Higher income people are in a better position to take advantage of the health care system.” This is not the end of the consequences caused by inequalities. As what the wealthy can take to their health care, the poor may no longer have the chance to get equal treatments. The