“Let’s take the 2012 welfare total of 109,631,000 and add the 6 million Obamacare Medicaid expansion and the 17 million who get Obamacare subsidies and you have a minimum of 126 million receiving some sort of means-tested welfare vs. 118.5 million who ‘usually’ work full time. The 2013 US Population Estimate is 316 million. Using 316 million as a rough estimate of the 2014 population (it would likely be higher) and 126 million on welfare (that number is also higher, perhaps way higher), about 40% of the country is on some form of means-tested welfare, up from 35.4% at the end of 2012. Over 50% gets welfare or some other form of non-means-tested assistance.”
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/08/40-of-country-on-welfare-obamacare.html