because every patient that walks into a hospital (or is birthed there) is a loss. Sure, some money for a patient visit is better than no money, but if 50%+ of a hospitals patient base is medicaid insured, the hospital will close its doors... because they lose money on every medicaid patient and break even on every Medicare patient (if they are a good quality hospital), they have to make all of their margin on commercial payers. Hence, welcome to a healthcare environment where a healthy individual with a $5000 deductible is paying $1,000 a month for coverage.
Liberals have to understand that uncontrolled entitlements bring everything down.