1.   For the elderly, Medicare HMOs offer prescription coverage and other extras at no added cost.

2.   Also, they often get prescription drug coverage not provided by traditional Medicare.

3.   Among them are prescription drug coverage for senior citizens, Medicare, Social Security and the right of patients to sue their health insurance plan.

4.   Another part of the plan would have extended prescription drug coverage to those at or near the poverty level.

5.   Any premium for prescription drug coverage would be added to that.

6.   As a result, many advocates argue, the lack of prescription drug coverage raises important questions of equity.

7.   Beyond that, Gore offers a broader package of prescription drug coverage through Medicare to all elderly patients, while Bush does not.

8.   Boomers will demand expanded Medicare, prescription drug coverage and a beefed-up Social Security program.

9.   Both presidential candidates pledged to find a way to add prescription coverage to Medicare.

10.   Both parties contend that the drug proposal is way too small, saying all Medicare recipients should get prescription drug coverage, not just the poor.