Medicaid has provided free healthcare to people with qualifying disabilities since long before Obamacare. Obamacare did encourage states to expand Medicaid to l

Medicaid has provided free healthcare to people with qualifying disabilities since long before Obamacare. Obamacare did encourage states to expand Medicaid to low-income people regardless of health status and provide them with funding to do so, so in most of the US [0] it expanded Medicaid availability to people who previously weren't "disabled enough" to qualify. [0] https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-medicaid-expansion-decisions-interactive-map/ https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/status-of-state-med...