For people living with diabetes, the push for medical coverage isn’t political, it’s personal

Katharine Mackett recalls how, as a young person, her mother had to come to her elementary school daily to administer insulin and to check her blood sugars.She said it now costs more than $4,000 every year for medical interventions to manage her Type 1 diabetes. It is a heavy weight to carry along with a chronic disease that has demanded constant attention since her diagnosis in the late 1990s, at age 3.