Here in Washington state, where just about every elected official is a Democrat, Medicaid is only available to children, pregnant women, and people on SSI.
An able bodied adult under 65 is NOT eligible here, no matter how poor.
I believe all states have the discretion to add more benefits or broaden eligibility, but few actually do.
ObamaCare will make millions of new people - perhaps tens of millions - eligible for Medicaid.
In retrospect, it would have been vastly simpler, and much less expensive, just to expand Medicaid by $150 billion per year.
The 40 million uninsured would have health care, and the insane ObamaCare law would have been completely unnecessary.
Do you recall the identity of those 45 million uninsured?
Approximately 1/4 were making at least $75K, but chose not to buy health insurance.
Another 1/4 were working, but were less affluent, and couldn't afford to buy health insurance.
Approximately 1/4 were eligible for Medicaid, but had never applied for it -- likely because they had never needed it.
And approximately 1/4 were illegal aliens.
So the "problem" actually devolved down to about 11 million people uninsured. And Obamacare upset the applecart for 255 million insured people who were otherwise satisfied with their situation just to serve those 11 million.
Of course, insuring the uninsured was never what Obamacare was about, anyway. It was about power and control over the American people.