Posted 11:11 AM 4/2/2026 by ALI SWENSON Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Two-year-old Bain Brandon has Type 1 diabetes and needs insulin to live. But even with health insurance, the price tag isn't cheap.

A one-month supply of insulin vials and a three-month supply of backup pens for the Mississippi toddler cost his parents $194 last week (More)

Posted 1:15 PM 3/31/2026 by Colleen DeGuzman, Stephen Simpson and Terri Langford, DATA ANALYSIS BY Dan Keemahill

After missing her chair and falling on the tile floor during a child’s birthday party last October, the 54-year-old Edinburg woman begged: “Don’t take me to the hospital.”

Her head was throbbing and sharp pain stretched down her back. The woman, an undocumented (More)