Not nessisarily (SP?). my FIL was denied medicaid at first and recieves SSI. He was put on a temporary waiver through medicaid. He can be dropped at any time.He will qualify for medicaire in the year 2009. he didn't qualify for traditional medicaid because his whopping 640 dollars SSI was too much income I guess. It is not as easy and cut and dry as you might think to get on medicaid. I thought the same thing until this all started with him.Did the woman have terminal cancer? I didn't see it mentioned in the linked articles. If the woman had SSI then she should have had Medicaid. Sounds like she recently left him and that's why he killed her.