"Dream on. No you can't just walk in and get low cost health care at a community health center or low cost mental health care. It's hard enough for people to qualify for Medicaid."

Most of the information listed came directly from the ACA website.  So, your annecdotal experience isn't the rosy picture Barry & Nancy painted of a healthcare utopia?  

At the end of the day you can only do so much to  save people from themselves.  Whether or not you like hearing it, Medicaid is for bums.  Medicare and SSI are programs WORKING people earn.  

Be sure to let your friend in the coma (guardian) know taxpayer-funded lawyers are available to help with his appeal.