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“Cyber security is a process, not a patch,” Eugene Spafford said.

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Early this year, Hensley, 45, and business partner Jeff Spafford, 44, launched the Assistance Fund, a national charity that covers pricey prescription-drug costs for those who have insurance but can't afford their co-pay, the portion of the cost they must cover themselves.

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Already, Hensley and Spafford have raised $20 million in donations - mostly from large corporations, including drug manufacturers - and are assisting 3,000 patients across the country.

As drug costs soar, charity offers help with covering co-pays Kate Santich 2010

“Cyber security is a process, not a patch,” Eugene Spafford said.

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Without the help from Hensley and Spafford, she would not be able to afford the MS drug Copaxone, which costs her $433 a month out of pocket.

As drug costs soar, charity offers help with covering co-pays Kate Santich 2010

As for Hensley and Spafford, they plan to double - or even triple - the number of patients enrolled in their fund by next year.

As drug costs soar, charity offers help with covering co-pays Kate Santich 2010

           The Spafford fronted on Olympic Boulevard, the most indifferent-to-human-life thoroughfare in all of Los Angeles.

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Her father, Horatio Gates Spafford, a well-to-do lawyer from Chicago, had moved his family to Jerusalem, seeking a simple religious way of life.

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It only ceased to be a religious community in the early 1950s, and thereafter Bertha Spafford Vester ran it as an upscale boutique hotel, catering to wealthy American and European tourists.

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The place even had a name, “The Spafford,” written with a flourish across the front in once-silver glitter gone gray and dour, like an aged starlet.

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