COLUMN: Test your Medicare knowledge with a true-or-false quiz

Quizzes can be fun, especially if your academic or career future doesn’t hinge on your answers’ accuracy. Your score on this Medicare quiz will have no negative consequences, although misunderstanding Medicare’s rules could affect your health-care coverage, the premiums you pay or even your health status.

These are true-or-false questions. You will find answers at the end. 

1True or false: Although employers pay hundreds of dollars a month for employee health insurance, all Medicare…