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.
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.