for dollswldy...wanting to stay on Enbrel

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Did you solve your problem with getting aid to stay on Enbrel? In my last

message I wrote that I wanted to get on it and like you, can't get help with

Enliven because I'm on medicare...and then my supplement has a " gap " that I have

to pay $2000 and can't even use the card I got from a " Foundation " that approved

me for help....and now I don't know what to do.

Jean

dollsewldy <dollsewldy@...> wrote:

I had help last year and it was no trouble I made one phone call and

that was it, but they ran out of money this year so far I have been

to hell and back first they told me I could use the Quick card now

they tell me no I can not use it because of my medicare. my medicare

does not pay any thing on my meds at all. I dont have part D because

with hubby's work I have aetna that pays for my meds but that leaves

me $200. a month to pay. So now they have me filling out the paper

work for health well I do not see why any meds has to be so high in

the first place. They no we have to have this meds so why make it so

hard for us to buy. that is not right to put us throught hell to try

to live a little part of the rest of our lifes with as little pain as

we can. I was always told it was a Joy to get old! How can you have

Joy when you spend most of your time on the phone with some person

that had no thought of what your live is like and they get to make up

there mine if you get the help you need are not! Sorry But I have had

a Day full of people telling me they understand when they have no

Clue! the hell it is to have RA are AS. Well now that I have said My

Mine maybe I can get a good night sleep good luck to all trying to

get help in the new year! I have been so sad and down all day because

I dont no where to turn too!

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> > Enbrel.com

> > Enliven Services

> > Reimbursement Support Services

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> > http://www.enbrel.com/ra/enliven-services.jsp

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> > Not an MD

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> Been there, did without.

> I once was a very grateful and fortunate recipient of Enliven's

> Services. But once Medicare Part D was enacted, I was dropped from

> the program.

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> For six months, I went w/o Enbrel until I could

> find some philanthropic assistance.

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> You are not going to find Enbrel on anyone's $4.00 list.

> You will not qualify for Enbrel's Enliven Services if you

> have/qualify for Medicare Part D.

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> Enbrel's Enliven Services are for folks w/o insurance.

> Medicare Part D, qualifies as insurance....such as it is.

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> You may find assistance with PPA or Healthwell, but they won't be

> able to cover the entire cost of a year's supply of Enbrel.

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> Under Medicare Part D, once the Enbrel Rx burns through that

> philanthropic organization's contribution you may find yourself

> paying large co-pays.

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> It was a total nightmare for six months. The philanthropic

> organizations' resources are limited and are exhausted quickly.

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> If you have the determination, patience and wherewithall to work

> through the endless paperwork eventually you may find some

financial

> assistance with this obscenely expensive drug.

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> Soapbox -----> Personally I think it's a crime, an ethical

> abomination to develop a drug that can help the crippled walk but

> make it so expensive that there is no way on earth that the

disabled

> w/ no health insurance can obtain it. And don't tell me R & D merits

a

> price that high, when the pharmaceutical companies post record

> breaking profits, year after year.

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> Good Luck,

> Shauna

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