Privately insured people with cancer were diagnosed earlier and lived longer than those who were uninsured or were covered by Medicaid, according to two recent studies. Medicaid patients fared worse than the uninsured patients in this study, that might be because, until recently, some of them, too, had been uninsured, the researchers say, and only enrolled in Medicaid after their cancer was diagnosed.
Studies Link Cancer Patients’ Survival Time To Insurance Status
