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nonightowl · Jan 10, 2019 at 02:58 PM

Most states expanded their Medicaid to income low-income childless adults. In the old days, before Obamacare (ACA), one had to have children to qualify, which is counter intuitive to me. I mean, it's more mouths to feed.

Depending on the state, the eligibility requirements vary. For food stamps, some used to count assets, like if you have a car or house, you didn't qualify! I can't believe they expect you to sell your car or house to buy food. Now, one can still qualify with those things. That's just an example. I'm not as familiar with Medicaid.

For some people in states that didn't expand, they fall through the cracks if they make "too much" for Medicaid but "not enough" to get insurance on their own or to apply on the exchange. The income threshold is very low. Yet they could be too rich for Medicaid. And fewer employers offer benefits now, as they complain of the cost.

Medicaid is funded by both federal and state funds. With this government shutdown, they said food stamps could be affected as well, but for now they have funding at least for January......