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Medicaid (Medical in California) takes care of people with disabilities who do not have access to medicare through their parents.  Basically, Medicare is tied with Social security benefits.  So, if the parents of a child are or have been paying into social security, their child (when he turns 18) has the right to receive SSDI (Social security disability insurance) based on their parent's SSA.  Prior to reaching the age of 18, the PARENTS who are in charge of that child received the SSDI for the child.  With it comes medicare (if the disability lasts longer than 24 months).


Medicaid is provided for people who are either below a minimum income and/or for people with disability who are not eligible for SSDI thus do not get medicare.  In that case, disabled people do not get SSDI, but SSI and medicaid


Often, Medicare and medicaid work together to provide more substantial reimbursement for people who are "in the middle" in terms of income.


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