because there are no deductibles in the advantgage plan, the co-pays are $5 or $10 and prescriptions are usually $5.

What does Medicare cover 80%, you pay %20?

My major Triple A (Abdomen Aorta Aneurysm) costs me less than $700 on a hospital billing over $200,000 and I don't know what the doctors billings were.

Lowering payments to doctors will only lead to more doctors leaving medicare and the advantage plans - our last doctor and his entire co-staff left and will only support private and company insurance plans.

Lowering the payments on prescritions will lead us back to high prescriptions costs for seniors, something that ws just fixed in the last few years.