medicaid you pratically have to be extremely poor, or purposely working close to the maximum income limit to be eligible, even go above that 1 year or a month, you have to report the income. usually its very low maximum monthly income, depending on a state. ALso medicaid has limited services of where you can get your health care, like a clinic, hospital, eventhough private doctors can use medicaid payments, they dont because the reimbursment is very low, or it takes a while, so most wont accept medicaid at all, hence the patients are very limited where they go to for healthcare. some states have denti-care too, but its even more limited than medicaid.

medicare is technically for poor people, but i thinkts also elgible to certain groups too. and its a partially single paying system.

whats funny is the military has SINGLE payer system and its family members, like tricare. you can see which way the politicians will fund and not fund, because its politically neccesary to them.

healthcare is a wedge issue used by both D and R.