“…First, low-income status has been consistently observed to be inversely associated with colon cancer care in the United States, but not in Canada (Gorey, Luginaah, Bartfay, Fung, Holowaty, Wright, Hamm, & Kanjeekal, 2011;Booth, Zhang-Salomons, & Mackillop, 2010;Etzioni, El-Khoueiry, & Beart, 2008;Lima, Yasui, Scarfe, & Winget, 2011;Rayson, Urquhart, Cox, Grunfeld, & Porter, 2012). Second, in the United States, people with private HI or Medicare coverage are more likely to receive the best, evidencebased care and to survive longer than are those with arguably less adequate Medicaid coverage or no coverage (Boland et al, 2013;Bradley, Given, Dahman, & Fitzgerald, 2008). Third, being poor, uninsured or Medicaid insured are all much more common among women than men in the United States (Gorey et al, 2012;DeNavas-Walt et al, 2012;Iceland, 2013).…”