To The Editor:Medicare will slash funding for life saving cancer drugs. Consequently these drugs may not be available to any patient.  Cancer strikes all age groups.Medicare is soliciting suggestions in its public comment phase that ends May 9. The website is located at https://www.regulations.gov/#!home and the docket ID is CMS-2016-0036. Please help by commenting.  People can also contact President Barack Obama at https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/write-or-call. People also can call and leave comments at 202-456-1111.Letters can be mailed to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave N, Washington, DC 20500.People also should contact their US Senators and Congressman or woman.This is a test by the Administration to force Doctors to use lower cost drugs to achieve savings. Despite the fact they account for only 3 percent of Medicare outpatient drug expenses.The information is already available through private studies, but Medicare refuses to accept the statistics.  Nationwide 300 Cancer Clinics have closed since 2005.  Due to 2013 financial cuts to Cancer Centers 400 are struggling.This plan will affect 75 percent of the current  providers. The St. Louis area will lose community Cancer Centers. Patients will be forced to seek treatment as hospital outpatients with 30 percent to 50 percent increased cost.   A cancer diagnosis is devastating, fewer Cancer Centers and Oncologist and staff will mean longer wait for treatment and more deaths. Critically ill patients will travel long distances for treatment.The primary focus should be on the patient, not the cost.  Doctors should be allowed to prescribe what is best for each individual without fear of financial reprisal from the government.M J Fahrni, Warrenton