[Repeal The 17th]

Here is something I do not understand...

From what I read,
it seems that the vast majority of folks that are signing up for obamacare
are being added to the medicaid roles.

Have these folks always been eligible for medicare,
and they just didn’t know about the program,
or
were they not motivated to sign up for the program,
or
did medicaid eligibility requirements change with obamacare,
and now they are eligible where they were not before?

[Carriage Hill]

MediCare eligibility starts at 65, with certain conditions, but the poor have always been eligible for MedicAid. There was a very low income threshold for MedicAid, I believe.

Those roles are now beyond massive, as gov’t become gargantuan, but 0bummercare ‘promised’ so many things it just couldn’t deliver, people are being defacto shifted into MedicAid, after 0bummercare *intentionally* collapses. That is the Cloward-Piven plan; overload and collapse the system.

I have no first-hand knowledge of MedicAid programs since I’ve always ad good healthcare programs, either thru early employers or my own businesses.

I don’t know specific MedicAid/0bummercare eligibility requirements; perhaps someone else can speak to that.

[smokingfrog]

Medicade was expanded by O-care.

http://www.advisory.com/Daily-Briefing/Resources/Primers/Medicaid-expansion