What would happen if Medicaid was eradicated?

"In 2002, Medicaid enrollees numbered 39.9 million Americans, the largest group being children (18.4 million or 46 percent). It is estimated that 42.9 million Americans will be enrolled in 2004 (19.7 million of them children) at a total cost of $295 billion. Medicaid payments assist nearly 60 percent of all nursing home residents and about 37 percent of all childbirths in the United States."
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Medicaid is also the program that provides the largest portion of federal money spent for health care on people living with HIV. Typically, poor people who are HIV positive must progress to AIDS before they can qualify under the "disabled" category. More than half of people living with AIDS are estimated to receive Medicaid payments."

Even the AMA wants to expand coverage to the 47 million uninsured.
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category...

Just a guess. There'd be allot more dead, dying and very sick. I'm all for reducing the global human population. I'd like to think we could find a more humane way of accomplishing it. Like finding a way to reduce global rates of reproduction.

The conservatives would have one big party to dance on the graves of the elderly that died too soon because it gave them another tax break.

careless people who sleep around and get HIV and have numerous out of wedlock children will be forced to rethink their behaviors and get jobs were proper insurance is given. Poor people with HIV should be finding suitable work instead of sleeping around. many people in the US ask to be sick or poor and put the burden on taxpayers to fund their HIV medicine and numerous children. just my opinion.

thered be more sickness and more death