There is a growing disparity between healthy and sick Americans born after 1980, caused by various factors, including a widening income gap, obesity which tends to hit certain income and ethnic groups more, access to health care services, and some other factors, researchers from Ohio State University wrote in American Sociological Review. The authors added that the difference in the health of people gets wider as they approach and reach middle age, before closing during old age. This being the case, the researchers predict that over the next couple of decades, as younger generations get older and replace existing ones, differences will widen. Full post…