Giving Compass' Take:

· Olga Khazan at The Atlantic discusses data revealed in a study by the journal Health Affairs showing that America has one of the biggest income-based health disparities around the world. 

· How can these disparities be addressed? What can be done to increase equal access to healthcare in America? 

· Here's more on America's health-inequality problem. 

The U.S. has one of the largest income-based health disparities in the world, according to a new paper out in the journal Health Affairs. Among the poorest third of Americans studied, 38.2 percent report being in “fair or poor” health, compared with 12.3 percent of the richest third. Only Chile and Portugal have a larger income-based gap in the health status of their citizens.

While two-thirds of Americans report that “many” people in their country can’t access the health-care they need—10 percentage points higher than in any other country—Americans were less likely than average to say that it’s unfair that wealthier people can afford better health care.

We found that ethical concerns about the fairness of income-based health-care disparities were less common in the United States than in most of the other countries in our sample,”

Read the full article about America's health-inequality problem by Olga Khazan at The Atlantic.