Side note:
I got my Medicare and You 2014 yesterday.
If I stay with the same Medicare Advantage plan I have now, my total premium (Medicare Part B premium + keeping same Medicare Advantage plan) will increase about 30% over the current.
How do you know what the Medicare Part B premium will be? AFAIK, it hasn’t been released for 2014. It isn’t on the Medicare web site and if you call and ask they say they don’t know how much it will be and further, don’t know when it will be released.
FWIW, my Med D is up 21.62% for next year, assuming I stay with the same vendor.