Class Domination Theory Of Wealth

To whom it may concern: This letter is to confront the issue of affordable health care and the distribution and concentration of wealth in the United States today. Because of the skewed distribution of wealth, we need a stronger support system to be able to redistribute this wealth and make health care an option for all in America. If we continue to go on with our past and current styles of administering health care to the public, we are not going to progress, and we are not going to be able to better the lives of the American people, particularly those that cannot afford health care. Wealth virtually has a direct association with power, and we turn to the class-domination theory of power to better understand the lack of equal distribution of wealth in our country.
Professor William Domhoff breaks down the definition of domination in this way: “Domination by the few does not mean complete control, but rather the ability to set the terms under which other groups and classes must operate” (Domhoff). It is no secret that the wealthy have much greater of an influence over public policy decisions, or any decisions made in the country, really, than the lower classes. The upper class, from the beginning of our country’s new governmental system, has always held the power. Our Founding Fathers were a part of the upper class, and it’s safe to say that every leader we have seen in the White House as well as all that hold even one of the smaller places in office, were and still are part of the upper