"Covering all breast cancer cases registered from 1996 to 2005, the data once again suggest that the uninsured fare almost as well as people on Medicaid.... Several interpretations are possible. One is that the health behaviors of those on Medicaid differ in important, and poorly considered, ways from the health behaviors of those with private insurance. Another is that these results are roughly similar for people on Medicaid and those who are uninsured because during the time covered by the study, people in the United States with serious illness could access health care whether or not they had coverage."