We can and we should get rid of Medicaid, just as soon as we extend Medicare to everyone legally in the country and include CSR payments for Medicaid eligible beneficiaries. Since the country is already paying a trillion dollars a year more than we should be for health care compared to all other industrialized countries it is already self funded. 

Republicans can refuse to govern for only so long. The country desperately needs to simplify our health care system if we ever expect to see investment in this country then we are obligated to get this super expensive monkey off our back and that takes so much money out of our economy with little to show for it.