Quote:Are you sure? This is the government we're talking about. There's probably some special Medicaid program buried in section MCMLXX on page 12,459 to help people who are having trouble conceiving.

 

In florida they didn't expand medicaid, the poverty level for a family of 5 currently is $28,440 annually. https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines

 

pregnancy medicaid allows up to 192% of the poverty level for coverage. which means the coverage for a family of 5 for pregnancy medicaid would end at (1.92 x $28,440) $54,528. Even a family of 6 or 7 making 75k a year is beyond the income limits. https://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty-guidelines

 

So if he was really making 75k a year and collecting medicaid he was committing fraud, most likely they didn't actually get married and on paper his new wife was only claiming her income or no income. Either way someone making 75k a year was never the intention of medicaid but that's the problem with state funded welfare, it's easily abused, it's easily cheated, and there's never any consequences. Which is why I advocate localizing welfare as much as possible, that way there's an incentive for communities to turn in and report fraudulent abusers. 

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