Low-income Americans who rely on subsidized health care services under the federal government's Affordable Care Act (ACA) are now worried due to potential Medicaid cutbacks.

Medicaid allowed people like Freida Lockaby, an unemployed 56-year-old woman from Manchester, Kentucky, to get health care under the state-federal insurance program for free. It allowed her to get free treatment for a thyroid as well as eye disorders. She called the program a "godsend" to her.

However, that could change soon, under president-elect Donald Trump's administration. Trump as well as GOP-controlled Congress is widely expected to repeal the ACA or Obamacare. Any such move will also devastate the associated Medicaid program in dozens of states and the District of Columbia, affecting as many as ten million people.

In addition, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin has also announced that the state can not afford the controversial Medicaid program in its current form.

Emily Beauregard, executive director of an advocacy group called Kentucky Voice for Health, said, "I think it's much more likely that a waiver could be approved under the Trump administration. On the other hand, I wonder if the waiver will be a moot point under a Trump administration, assuming that major pieces of ACA are repealed."

Lockaby is one of the more than 440,000 low-income residents in Kentucky who are currently receiving free health care under the state-federal insurance program.