Iceland has means-tested its social-insurance system. From Wordnik.com. [Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?] Reference
I said there are no means-tested programs that they are eligible for. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007] Reference
And universality is cheaper to administer than a means-tested system. From Wordnik.com. [Benefit cuts and fairness: We're all in this together… or are we?] Reference
But means-tested programs, aimed at the poorest, fuel class conflict. From Wordnik.com. [Obama and the Democrats must reconnect with working-class voters] Reference
Don't you know that Social Security are not means-tested unlike most charities?. From Wordnik.com. [Biden has only been giving 0.06% - 0.31% of his adjusted gross income to charity.] Reference
Social Security and Medicare should become means-tested safety nets for the poor. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Schram: Does Stimulus Lead to Prosperity?] Reference
Another 2 to 3% got means-tested support to which 'parental contribution' was required. From Wordnik.com. [University applications rise as candidates race to avoid higher fees] Reference
Our own weird episodes and challenges highlight the Catch-22 aspect of means-tested aid. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Pollack: A story about eyeglasses] Reference
It should pool these payments into a means-tested 16-19 youth allowance paid to students. From Wordnik.com. [Will disadvantaged children lose out in the spending review?] Reference
There are plenty of moderates out there who would support some kind of means-tested program. From Wordnik.com. [Alan Gottlieb: Feed the Rich!] Reference
Medicare, are four and a half times bigger than the budgets for means-tested welfare programs. From Wordnik.com. [Justice Between Generations] Reference
Roosevelt and the New Dealers insisted that Social Security benefits should not be means-tested. From Wordnik.com. [Jesse Larner: How Not to Do Healthcare Reform] Reference
Furman is a fan of means-tested co-payments, and I stole that idea for Arlo's single-payer plan. From Wordnik.com. [Jason Furman's Health Care Plan, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Jim Callaghan, as chancellor, looked at diverting money to a means-tested family supplement in 1967. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative conference live - Monday 4 October] Reference
And especially, should higher-income Medicare beneficiaries pay means-tested premiums that are higher?. From Wordnik.com. [Press Conference By The President] Reference
Customers get a means-tested number of tokens per month with which they can pay for food and beverages. From Wordnik.com. [Arrivederci, Penne? Food Inflation] Reference
It is exactly as Hatfield Girl said - NuLab wants everyone to become means-tested clients of the state. From Wordnik.com. [One of Many?] Reference
The poor and disadvantaged should expect no more than minimal, time-limited and means-tested assistance. From Wordnik.com. [Address on the occasion of the budget vote of the presidency] Reference
He doesn't get these benefits as part of some means-tested program, though there would be no shame in that. From Wordnik.com. [Harold Pollack: A Terrible Day for the Economy, But a Great Day to Note the Social Security Noncrisis] Reference
Those were means-tested charges and therefore the manifesto policy was less redistributive than tax reform. From Wordnik.com. [Tax debate] Reference
"Low taxes," yes — and selective reduction of the (already relatively small) means-tested benefit programs. From Wordnik.com. [Washington's New Celebrities: An Exchange] Reference
This inched Medicare from a universal program towards a means-tested one and the benefit was repealed in 1989. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Gralnick: Fattening Medicare] Reference
We also have Medicaid, a means-tested program that provides health insurance to many of the poor and near poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It] Reference
To some extent this reflects the political weakness of any means-tested program serving the poor and near poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Health Care Crisis and What to Do About It] Reference
Under the changes, various means-tested out-of-work payments would be scrapped and one universal credit created. From Wordnik.com. [U.K.'s Treasury Chief to Challenge] Reference
The phrase, "means-tested", is most often used by Democrats, but even they won't touch it in regard to health care. From Wordnik.com. [Why I am Not a Republican, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The bill provides that any compensation payments will be disregarded as income for purposes of means-tested programs. From Wordnik.com. [Statement By The President On Signing Into Law Hr] Reference
By providing means-tested relief, however, the government can avoid hitting the rich at the same time as helping the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The contents of a Tax Credit Application pack] Reference
But that's fixable by having means-tested subsidies and tax credits for buying insurance, which the mandate-bearing plans do. From Wordnik.com. [In An Interview With TPM, Krugman Ramps Up Case Against Obama] Reference
Defense budgets are now as large as any of the means-tested entitlement programs, and more than 55% of discretionary spending. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Adams: Time to Discipline DOD: The Disappointing Perry-Hadley Report] Reference
According to a blog post by the editorial board, Bond called on Friday for giving means-tested vouchers to Medicare enrollees. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Sen. Kit Bond Wants To Privatize Medicare With Vouchers] Reference
Cameron also gave a strong hint that universal benefits such as child benefit could become means-tested under coalition plans. From Wordnik.com. [David Cameron claims welfare reform will save in the long run] Reference
As a result, people feel no stigma attached to these payments, in marked contrast to their attitude toward means-tested welfare benefits. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Social Security: An Exchange] Reference
We'd see educational vouchers, not the separation of school and state (my first choice); and those vouchers might not even be means-tested. From Wordnik.com. [How Would the World Change If Everyone Shared Your Factual Beliefs?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The program is already means-tested -- if I might remind you that low-income Medicare beneficiaries now get their premiums paid by Medicaid. From Wordnik.com. [Mccurry Raines Shalala Briefing] Reference
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