Medicaid was , originally, for those who could not get any insurance or health care anywhere else, basically care for the Indigent. Now because of Obamacare the easy solution to provide Health Insurance for anyone was Medicaid. Except the dirty little secret was that costs for that program go through the roof, the government pays all cost for the the firs three year and the states start gradually paying their cost till sticker shock hits and they have to figure out how to pay the bill and they can’t.
We are in a hole with no way out.
“...Now because of Obamacare the easy solution to provide Health Insurance for anyone....”
The entire purpose of “Obamacare”, was/is to hurt the medical and insurance industry so bad, that it would drive it all to the all-expanding government control (Marxism, basically) of everything in these industries. It was NEVER intended to do the LIES that were put forth by Obama and his Democrat ilk.
A huge fraud upon the American public all in the real name of big government control of the people.
Medicaid used to be available for only a very small segment of the population. Just being indigent was not enough. You had to also be pregnant or have young children, or be blind and a few other disabilities to get on Medicaid. It varied by State but basically it was for a very small segment of the population.
Obamacare drastically relaxed the eligibility requirements ... basically to anyone who had no/low income.