I was barely into the new year and I learned my doctor quit(and went to work for a non-profit Jewish senior care ctr; probably w/better pay), I'm potentially loosing coverage for one of my asthma medications (or I can pay out of pocket $329 every couple of months)and because I'm low income, my free Part D medicare, now has a monthly co-pay premium of $3.40 (with no cap, so I expect it to keep going up).
I've told people who voted for Obama that what he did was take a successful program for seniors (since 1965)and gutted it to the tune of almost one trillion dollars and spread the coverage around to everyone (legal and illegal).
As far as "death panels", I have heard that after the age of 75, certain surgeries, treatments, medications will not be available. Sounds like a death sentence for seniors to me.