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April 15, 2006
Eddie died; was Medicare a part?
By Tim Logan
Times Herald-Record
tlogan@th-record.com
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.
Rosa had a lot of health problems. Diabetes, high blood pressure, seizures - said his cousin, Dolores Reano. He'd had a heart attack, and he took a lot of medication, from insulin to blood thinners. He was 59, and he lived alone in a basement apartment on Grand Street, down the block from Reano, his only family in the area.
He was a sweetheart, says Ellen Waz, a former neighbor. He would always say "hi" or help with a bag. And he was a former building superintendent in Queens, good with his hands.
"He could fix just about anything," Reano said.
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