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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 896789" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Painful reality - BostonHerald.com</p><p>Painful reality</p><p>Ken Helgeson could be you.</p><p>The retired pressman from Millis worked for more than 50 years, sometimes two jobs, to take care of his daughter and his wife, Marion, a paraplegic as the result of polio.</p><p>“I never asked anybody for anything. I never took a free ride or money from the state. You took care of yourself. It’s the way we got brought up, and that’s what I’ve done,” Helgeson said yesterday, not bragging but putting the irony of his plight in perspective.</p><p></p><p>In what he calls “a sellout,” Helgeson says Medicare has changed its deal for covering the prescription drug that kept him working for 10 years with increasingly severe rheumatoid arthritis. Enbrel used to cost him a $42 per month co-pay. Now it costs him $600 a month. He can’t afford it. So he stopped taking Enbrel four months ago.</p><p>“Six hundred a month is an awful lot of money on a fixed income,” he said. “I just can’t pay.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 896789, member: 12952"] Painful reality - BostonHerald.com Painful reality Ken Helgeson could be you. The retired pressman from Millis worked for more than 50 years, sometimes two jobs, to take care of his daughter and his wife, Marion, a paraplegic as the result of polio. “I never asked anybody for anything. I never took a free ride or money from the state. You took care of yourself. It’s the way we got brought up, and that’s what I’ve done,” Helgeson said yesterday, not bragging but putting the irony of his plight in perspective. In what he calls “a sellout,” Helgeson says Medicare has changed its deal for covering the prescription drug that kept him working for 10 years with increasingly severe rheumatoid arthritis. Enbrel used to cost him a $42 per month co-pay. Now it costs him $600 a month. He can’t afford it. So he stopped taking Enbrel four months ago. “Six hundred a month is an awful lot of money on a fixed income,” he said. “I just can’t pay.” [/QUOTE]
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