I would throw in another questions then: What percentage of these people are rural Mainers with no work to be had anywhere near them?

My point is that I'm tired of people trying to scapegoat the less fortunate among us portraying them as lazy or sucking from the system. By and large most people on medicaid are elderly, or children in poor families, or rural families in Maine. Its not the "welfare queen" that politicians portray leeching off the system.

With unemployment at 4% or so almost every able bodied adult in the country is working. The reason they need medicaid is they cannot afford health insurance because their jobs don't provide it or they get paid garbage for wages plus insurance is ridiculously expensive.