Political Humor

Depends on the state, mine only started participating in the Medicaid expansion program a year or two ago. Here low income families can have functional Medicaid coverage until you're 18, then you get put on a limited care program that really only covers emergent care. However, both the child and adult programs recently got semi-privatized. Now the sate pays BCBS and Humana to run the Medicaid program for the state, letting them determine what coverage is like.

So even in southern states where there is a Medicaid program, the adults rarely have coverage for everyday healthcare needs. It's mainly there to make sure there's some way to reimburse emergent care facilities.