Importance Of Health Care In The United States

It has become common today that financial income and education are the main characteristics and driving force for one to receive proper health care and their significance health’s decision. Class defines their heart attack conditions, the emergency care they each received, the jobs they wish to resume and sustain, and the household they returned. In the United States your health is depended on the class you are in. The upper and middle class are living in a healthy environment and obtained the best health care, which increase their longevity than those in the lower working class. As we are being exposed to new disease preventions and treatments each day, the lower class has less advantage being informed with updated medications, cures, or healthy life styles. …show more content…
The setback for the lower class is the inequality in every aspects of their life. For example all three patients in this book, Jean G. Miele, Will L. Wilson, and Ewa Rynczak Gora had very similar heart attack condition; however each one of them made different choices as their recovery process progresses depended on their wealth, connections, and status. Our health care system is unimaginably expensive, the cost and its conveniences discouraged many lower class people to deny the proper treatments that they need. There’s a significant correlation between health and social status, therefore social hierarchy dominates our lives in America that offer us different choices and for us to react differently upon the