For retirees’ sake, state needs to finalize plans for shift to Medicare Part D coverage

Bryan Sears did his usual outstanding job covering two important items on this week’s Board of Public Works meeting agenda (“New prescription benefits contract to yield ‘modest’ initial savings to state”, 8/7/24). But 60,000 state retirees wish he had also reported on the Medicare Prescription Drug Exchange and Health Reimbursement Arrangement (HRA) services contract on the agenda, intended to assist Maryland’s oldest retired state employees in transitioning from their promised retiree prescription drug plan to Medicare Part D.