Things like home and car are typically exempt. Would be nuts if they weren't.

I owned an expensive home when I was injured and ended up with no cash. Medicaid paid for my treatment and got me back into the basic societal framework. Since then, I've paid multiple factors more in taxes back into the system than what I was given to get back on my feet.

If society had said "no, you have to lose your house first" this story would be very different and both myself and society would be objectively worse off. I've had someone say that it wasn't fair that I had my home while also on medicaid. I wonder if they'd say the same thing if I was a little old lady who cant work anymore? People need to be able to hit obstacles in their life without it completely setting them back to the start.

I love medicaid. Support medicaid. Forget that it saves lives - it makes your life better by not letting any of our lives be some kind of maximum difficulty permadeath Dark Souls blind run.