Unequal Pay Means Unequal Health

Addressing the Many Facets of Health Disparities

Documentary filmmaker Larry Adelman opened his remarks on a panel about health inequalities by emphasizing why the subject matters for him personally.

The issue is “not just that the rich on average will live more than six years longer in the United States than the poor,” he said. “Even middle-class white folks like me can expect to die two to three years sooner than the affluent. So this is about all of us, not just about the poor.”

That’s significant, Adelman said, because people need to focus on solving health inequality not …