whelp the medicare trustees were wrong.very wrong. The standard medicare premium is going up to $170.10 a month, a 14.5% increase, and the annual deductible is going up to $233, up from the current $203, which is a 14.7% increase. The cost of living raise is going to be only 5.9%. The cost of a single new alzheimers drug, 56,000 a year, is being cited as the reason for about half of the increases.