Nearly two-thirds said the program should be available to all Medicare recipients, not just those with low incomes.

The drug benefit will be available to all 41 million Medicare recipients.

Medicare recipients will soon have a wide range of health insurance options like those available to workers in private industry.

Such concerns would grow if these companies managed drug benefits for Medicare recipients.

Medicare recipients would continue to pay the $48 annual premium.

Thus a number of questions and decisions now confront Medicare recipients.

Under the plan, Medicare recipients would be given a lump sum of $5,000.

And Medicare recipients can stay in traditional plans where they choose their own doctors.

Republicans say the president should sign the bill because of the new benefits it would provide Medicare recipients.

The other half of the story is how they cheat Medicare recipients.