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Prescription drugs: Are you overwhelmed by the costs?
- August 25, 2010 11:12 AM |
- By POV
A Bouctouche woman is taking her fight with New Brunswick's Department of Health over the lack of funding for her prescription drug costs to the provincial Human Rights Commission.
Josee Owen, 36, has had rheumatoid arthritis since she was 10 and now takes the drug Enbrel.
Even though she has partial medical insurance coverage through her employer, she still pays $370 a month -- about eight per cent of her income -- to cover the cost of the medication.
Owen said the Department of Health has an obligation to help people overwhelmed by drug costs.
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