It's sad that a discussion of senior's medical benefits which they paid a premium for all their working lives now becomes a political argument. That's what we get when we allow the government to take over these important parts of our welfare.
Not only has reduced payments for physician's services already become law, but in June 2010 the insurance companies are, by law, required to increase the deductibles with supplemental medicare policies. You know, the ones where you choose plan A,B,C,etc.
This is the law now and not dependent on what happens with the bills before Congress today.
I do not know when these new regulations were passed or why we seniors were not better informed about them previously. I would have thought an advocacy group like the AARP would have notified its members that this was happening.