Opinion: We ventured into the Medicare Part D drug plan forest — and got lost
My wife and I recently became eligible for Medicare’s prescription drug coverage, known as Medicare Part D. I am a retired lawyer who specialized in complex cases and Barbara has worked as a primary care doctor and associate professor at Harvard Medical School for many years. We assumed that choosing a plan would be a straightforward and easily accomplished chore. We couldn’t have been more wrong.
The odyssey — which it truly became — began as soon as we logged into the Medicare web site that “facilitates” drug plan comparisons. Our first inkling of trouble afoot was the abundance of choices, 25 of them, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, where we live.
