Majority of People Covered by Medicaid, and Similar Programs, are Children, Older Adults, or Disable

[eleny]

"Medicaid provides health insurance coverage to more people than any other single program in the United States, with coverage for low-income children, adults, seniors, and those with disabilities.1 As of March 2017, there were 74 million Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) enrollees, of which nearly 36 million were enrolled in CHIP or were children enrolled in Medicaid, according to the Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services.2

For a more detailed breakdown of people covered by Medicaid and other means-tested health insurance programs (like CHIP and others, listed in more detail below), we turned to the American Community Survey (ACS).3"

Table and more explanation at this link
http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2017/Majority-of-People-Covered-by-Medicaid-and-Similar-Programs.aspx

[Ohiogal]

1. This is what I've been trying to say

all along ..... these people all are on Medicaid because they cannot work!

I don't know how work requirements are going to be implemented unless you roll back child labor laws .... (something I wouldn't put it past the Party of Trump to do....)

And your Granny lying in bed in a nursing home ....

And a person who'd love to be working but is disabled ....

How ya gonna do that, Republicans???

[eleny]

2. I worked in human services for the better part of 30 years

In testing the programs and the statistics available to us at the state level it always appeared that the Medicaid populations were aged, disabled or children plus the adult in the AFDC households. And the AFDC adults, caregivers to infants and toddlers in the households, were required to seek employment after the kids achieved a certain age.

I hesitate to say exactly what age since I've been retired for some time. The current rules should be available by state online. Our Colorado state manuals as well as the Federal Register have been available online for decades.

So I'm curious to learn how they identified a population that will need to meet work requirements. It has to be quite narrow. And the benefits might be more myth than reality given that it will need staffing for implementation if they've identified a new population outside of the AFDC program.

[Ohiogal]

3. Yes you are right

The percentage of people on Medicaid that meet the work requirements is likely to be pretty narrow.

I have conservative relatives, and I've heard their opinions, so I think I can safely say that most conservatives have this belief (where they get it, I don't know) that every single person on Medicaid is an able bodied adult and lazy moocher, who is living the high life off the government dole. They see a poor person go to the doctor for free and that really frosts their flakes. They think that Medicaid moochers take 99% of their tax money that they worked so hard for. There really is no trying to convince them otherwise.