1.   Medicare has not changed with it, however, leaving some seniors literally forced to choose between medications and groceries.

2.   Over the past two years, HMOs, complaining of losses, have bailed out of the program in droves, leaving seniors in the lurch.

3.   The Democrats fear that too great a reliance on the market will leave seniors at the mercy of insurance companies that only want to cover the healthy.

4.   Their absence left seniors Charlie Bell, Andre Hutson and Mike Chappell in charge of the title defense.