The exceptions require mountains of paperwork and convoluted bureaucracy to navigate, and the work requirements require constant check ins that’s difficult to keep up with when you’re living paycheck to paycheck, so most people end up losing their coverage. Why should access to healthcare require a job? Medicare/medicaid doesn’t give the patients money, it gives doctors money. The patient still needs a source of income.
And when people go to a doctor without coverage, they still get treated. So all it does is prevent doctors from getting paid, and then they increases care prices to make up for the cost. So what’s the beef here? It’s not a handout, because the doctor is working for that money, and it’s money out of your pocket when other people are uninsured.