This is what a state that refuses to expand Medicaid looks like

[Indy Texas]

The Atlantic goes to the Dickensian ville of Grundy, Virgina:

Are we still in the developed world?

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You here that? The lazy mooches are eating steak! Cut their SSDI benefits!

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If critics claim that Medicaid will bring with it a slow-moving bureaucracy that impedes access to care, it's not clear that a severely strained safety net relying on private charity can provide services very quickly either.

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For now, residents take doses of the free anesthetic that is Appalachian fatalism.

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[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Those who are on SSDI - who aren't "rolling in dough" whether or not they are legitimately disabled - have health coverage, since SSDI recipients receive Medicare coverage. They are there at that health clinic because there just aren't doctors in the area to see them. Having more of the general population have health insurance could allow an increase the number of providers in the area, though Medicaid is much less attractive in this respect.  Having the working poor have better access to health insurance would also remove one of the incentives for being or staying on SSDI for those with some chance of working.