There has been growing controversy on the linkages of economic inequality, particularly income inequality, to health- whether it has exclusive impact on health or not. Studies, mostly based on developed nations, have brought the controversy to parallel showing of significant association as well as no association between income inequality and health. This study tries to assess the impact of consumption inequality, as a proxy of economic inequality or income inequality, in the context of India, with health of aged population. Using data from National Sample Survey 60 th round collected in 2004, it is observed that consumption inequality is associated positively with perceived poor health and that association is stronger for females. The association, however, remains significant only for middle economic group people, while no association is observed for low and high economic group people