In South Carolina, where I work for a hospital, you automatically qualify for Medicaid when you’re diagnosed with cancer.

This way people don’t die from untreated cancer.

Getting diagnosed early when uninsured is where we fail as a society. Our politicians cover up this failure by giving them Medicaid so we spend $500k treating advanced disease and they still die, rather than universal coverage.

Yup, the cost of delayed care is quite often lives.