Beneficiaries who enrolled in the most expensive of the three plans would have to pay extra premiums.

For an extra premium, you can usually get this deductible covered as well.

There would be no extra premium for the drug coverage offered to people in the fee-for-service program, administration officials said.

We try and look at the risk to see if it warrants an extra premium.

The coverage could be offered for an extra monthly premium of less than $25.

Industry executives felt the extra premium was slowly bleeding the healthy institutions.

Elderly people with incomes below a certain level, perhaps $30,000 a year, would not have to pay the extra premium for home health care.

An extra premium pegged to income would finance the new services.

But he added, "We factor in no extra premium because of their royal history."

Most personal computers today have enough space, so those manufacturers wouldn't pay the extra premium.