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What Medicare Means Testing Means for Older Adults and People With Disabilities
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This fact sheet explains what Medicare means testing would mean for older adults, people with disabilities, and the health care system.
A core component of Medicare is its universality. Some policy ideas would undermine that promise by limiting benefits to people with lower incomes or requiring higher income enrollees to pay more for their care or coverage.
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Any changes to the Medicare program must aim for healthier people, better care, and smarter spending—not paying more for less. As policymakers debate the future of health care, we will provide our insights here.
Thinking ahead to Medicare's future, it’s important to modernize benefits and pursue changes that improve how people with Medicare navigate their coverage on a daily basis. Here are our evolving 30 policy goals for Medicare’s future.
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