Emergency Rooms and Cancer

"[P]eople have access to health care in America. After all, you just go to an emergency room." - President Bush, 10 July 2007

Why does not having health insurance matter? A new report from the not particularly socialist American Cancer Society finds that "Uninsured Americans are less likely to get screened for cancer, more likely to be diagnosed with an advanced stage of the disease, and less likely to survive that diagnosis than their privately insured counterparts." [Hat Tip: NorthJersey] For more on why health coverage matters, see this report by Randall R. Bovbjerg and Jack Hadley at the Urban Institute.