MINNEAPOLIS: On a frosty January morning in a Minneapolis suburb, Abigail Hansmeyer leaves her car engine running and takes out a brown paper bag carrying needles and a vial, handing it over to its recipient in an anonymous shopping center parking lot.Instead, the vial contains insulin: A medicine that has since its discovery in the 1920s transformed a diagnosis of diabetes from a swift death sentence to a manageable disease.
Gentile doesn’t live in abject poverty. She receives a monthly disability allowance of US$1,200 and has public health insurance. Crucially, however, that insurance does not cover prescription medicine. People who have it need to inject themselves with insulin several times a day for the rest of their lives.
But her husband’s employer doesn’t subsidise its workers health insurance. Not poor enough to qualify for state insurance, and not rich enough to buy their own, the couple gave up looking in January. After crossing that threshold, he found himself unable to afford his own insurance on his meagre salary as a restaurant worker.
“I think until I take my last breath I’ll feel a sense of guilt in some sort of way,” said Smith-Holt. “I wish he would have asked for help.”
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