Exposing Looney Left Lie #4 About Medicare: Medicare Is Already Means Tested

One of the favorite lies about Medicare from the looney left¹ (see other examples here, here and here) is that it is unfair to poor seniors. The leftist income-redistributionist argument goes that Medicare should be means tested like Social Security and Medicaid. But it already is.

As the 2014 Medicare and You booklet clearly shows (see image above), Medicare is already means tested.

High-income seniors (currently determined by leftist bureaucrats to be about 10% of the senior population) already pay more for their Medicare coverage than us middle-income seniors (low-income seniors receive Medicare at no cost). Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the percentage of seniors who pay more for Medicare is scheduled to rise to close to 20% by 2020 (leftist bureaucrats and Democrats have decided many of you middle-income seniors -- mostly retired school teachers -- are high income) and various Democratic Party proposals increase that percentage to close to 30% as fast as the little lefties can screw rich seniors (bringing in retired cops and firefighters to pay  more for Medicare than the rest of us).

Of course, rich seniors also pay more for their Medicare because they spent 3%-plus of higher payroll-based incomes for their whole lives in order to fund the Medicare Part A trust fund and presumably paid large income taxes their entire lives  (unless they had really good tax accountants) to fund the Part B trust fund.

¹There are plenty of right-wing propagandistic Medicare claims as well. I cite them here and on Massachusetts Health Stats frequently. But it appears that the left just hates senior citiziens more than the right wing so looney lefty lies far outnumber right-wing ones.