Beneficiary must pay $130 a day for days 61 through 90.

The beneficiary would pay 25 percent of drug costs from $275 to $2,200 a year.

The beneficiary would then pay all drug costs up to about $5,800 a year.

Beneficiary must pay $65 a day toward that care after first 20 days.

Then the beneficiary would pay, until costs reached about $5,800.

Beneficiaries would pay some of the cost through higher premiums.

The beneficiary must pay Federal taxes on the money used, but there is no state tax.

In fact, fewer than two million beneficiaries pay the maximum of $800 an individual and $1,600 a couple.

The beneficiary would pay 50 percent of drug costs from $276 to $4,500, with Medicare paying the other half.

Once a beneficiary had paid $4,000 out of pocket in a year, the government would pay all remaining costs.