The Uninsured and Cancer
February 19, 2008 · Filed Under Health Care
Studies show that people who are not insured and those on Medicaid don’t go to the doctor until their cancers are advanced.
Obviously this is not good because everyone knows or should know by now that there is a better chance of survival when tumors are caught early. Putting aside the fact that these people have a much higher incidence of death, treatment is also more expensive.
The problem is, that sometimes tumors are benign and the folks that have personal insurance will often have early caught tumors treated when they are not cancerous. Bad news for the insurance companies. Too bad!
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