Description: Writing this essay, made me realize the importance of income, and how it is affecting us in everything we do. Getting aid for college, and Medicaid all depends on income, and if you have a low income you can really go through a hard time being treated for your illness.

Boubacar Diallo

Writing for  science

Instructor:  Brown

Date: 2/14/19

                                              The effect of Income

We all know how income affects us, it affects us in so many ways that our dream is to become rich,  for the fact that money is based on everything. An article published by The New York Times called “The Prescription Drugs That Rich People Buy” by  Kevin Quealy and Margot Sanger-Katz published on Feb. 7, 2019. Emphasizes more on the ideology of money.   Just like money can buy a huge car, it can buy medication too.  The article explains that people who suffer from mental illness,  that includes anxiety, depression, bipolar, or other mental illnesses which are not paid by insurance suffer because they can’t afford the medication that can help them with it while the rich could.  That is why we see that in data collected by scientist the rich have more access to medication that allows them to live longer while the poor does not.

         Emphasizing more on medication, the article includes data that shows that when it comes to botox, tooth whitening, and antidepressants the rich can afford while the poor can’t. Even though the poor needs it.  The writer statistically provides evidence that the rich live longer due to the fact they can afford all the goods that could make them live longer. While the poor have little to no access to anything good. The author is trying to target people who have low income, and people with high income, for, in that case, they could know that the system of income is not

fair. The author made it easier for the audience to understand statically and verbally by utilizing passive tone he was able to make sure the audience take in clearly the information.  Showing evidence that shows the unfairness of the so-called system income. Which made sure the audience get an understanding of how unfair it is to be a lower class and how American society treats the lower class.     

This article proved that having a low income with an illness you are more likely to not able to afford the treatment because they cost so much.  Hence hopefully in the future, we see this change in the price for medication because in the end just like the article have stated: “we are all humans”  and yes indeed we are.