BATON ROUGE - The Metro Council voted Wednesday night to approve a proposal to switch the city-parish retirees' health coverage to a private Medicare Advantage program, a move expected to save the local government more than $19 million.

All but one of the seven council members present voted to pass the plan.

Councilman Darryl Hurst was the sole no vote. He raised concerns about the lack of sufficient notification to retirees and the potential impact it can have on those with serious medical conditions.

" They want them to opt out and not being so, imagine somebody who needs to be on an organ donor list and has to go through a transplant, or somebody who has strong cases of cancer and the plan is not covered, so there were a lot of things for me that weren't answered. I'm not against Me

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