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The only significant difference between what you offer and what is in the bill is that individuals are paying for their own mandated insurance with some means-tested government assistance rather than having the government pay for everything.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Opinion on Legal Challenges to the Individual Mandate 2010

They are overwhelmingly in work and live largely independent of means-tested benefits, though they lean heavily on tax credits.

Why the 'squeezed middle' is here to stay 2011

To protect children, the state should act to try to make family life more manageable, through better school hours, flexible hours at work, means-tested childcare, and maternity and paternity leave.

Layard and Happiness, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The government is proposing to limit to 12 months the length of time someone placed in the Employment Support Allowance work-related activity group can receive ESA without being means-tested.

Miliband puts Cameron under pressure over benefit cuts for seriously ill 2011

Days after the announcement of Steadman's bill, UCLA's Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy released a study PDF showing that passage of the bill could save the state millions on state means-tested public benefit programs.

Study: Civil Unions Bill Would Save Colorado Money Ethan Axelrod 2011

So let's push for means-tested benefits, and hope that social security slowly but surely shrinks and evolves to a welfare system for the needy elderly.

Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I.e., a real income tax goes to the Treasury for spending as general revenue, but the income tax on SS benefits is instead returned to the SSA, and so is indistingushable in effect from a means-tested benefit reduction.

Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Until recently, scholarship eligibility was not means-tested, but according to a study by the Pacific Research Institute, 67% of all scholarship recipients would qualify under a similar program that did measure families 'financial situations.

School Choice on Trial 2010

Now one of the criticisms we hear of SS is that it was intended to be just that (albeit not means-tested); that it was supposed provide subsistence-level benefits, which have grown beyond the original intent.

Forced Savings vs. Social Security, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Days after the announcement of Steadman's bill, UCLA's Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy released a study PDF showing that passage of the bill could save the state millions on state means-tested public benefit programs.

Study: Civil Unions Bill Would Save Colorado Money Ethan Axelrod 2011