When I saw this in my bookmarks bar, I was intrigued as to how the US compared on this little factoid.  Is our health gap getting bigger or smaller?  While I found an article asserting that it's getting bigger as well, more specific details were difficult to come by.  I found a very poorly translated article on the growing health gap in Manitoba, Canada, which seems to indicate that this is not an isolated issue for Great Britain at least, and that the article assuming that the US health gap is growing as well is probably not far off base.  Another older article discusses the racial health gap between whites and blacks in the United States.  

I'm just a little amazed that this trend appears to be growing in first world countries.  It's something that one might more readily assume of an undeveloped nation.