When Medicaid was expanded to include those beyond disabled wokers, deceased workers dependent survivors, and poor elderly the cost of the programs sky rocketed. Then came SSI the program where someone who has paid in anything but still gets money. That is true welfare. SSI also started out as a survivors benifit for widows with kids etc and got expanded.
I drew it until my disability was approved which took about nine months counting appeal then I paid all the SSI back with first disability check. They do that automatically.
Same here...had SSI for a few months till SSDI started, and it is true welfare. You have to be destitute and have nothing to qualify for it though, or I guess have enough kids and no means to support them.
No payments to the doctors, or very little...no payment for prescriptions or very little. When my grandmother went into a nursing home, she had to declare no assets and no income in order for SSI Medicaid to pay for the nursing home care.