The opposite is true. Means-testing Medicare would avoid higher-income seniors paying mandatory premiums—i.e., taxes—to lock themselves into a government-run monopoly plan. In what other ...

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At a minimum, the cost of removing the means test would be at least €360 million as the 26,200 recipients of the domiciliary care allowance would automatically qualify, according to department ...