Eddie died; was Medicare a part? [View All]

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http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/04/15/news-tleddie-04-15.html

By Tim Logan
Times Herald-Record

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Newburgh - They say Eddie Rosa was good about taking his meds.

Every month, he'd walk in to Ace Drugs on Broadway and pick up his prescriptions, all 23 of them.

"Like clockwork," says Marty Irons, a pharmacist there.

But then came Jan. 1 and the new Medicare drug plan. Eddie had to start paying a bit for his prescriptions. He complained he couldn't afford it. In February, Eddie didn't come pick them up. A few weeks later, Eddie died.

No one can say for sure that the new Medicare drug plan caused Eddie Rosa's death, but some people who know him think it did. And they don't want it to happen to anyone else.
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Just more casualties of BushCo... I stood behind an elderly woman in the pharmacy the other day who was angry, confused and on the verge of tears over this Medicare mess. The pharmacist was patient and tried to work with her but you can't get blood out of a turnip. She just didn't have the money and didn't understand why she suddenly was asked to pay so much more.