LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Should you have to choose between purchasing your medicine or your groceries?

That's a question more Americans, including hundreds of Arkansans, have been grappling with every day, as rising health care costs force families to have to make impossible decisions.

For Summer Brinley, a diabetic mother and full-time worker in Arkansas, that question isn’t hypothetical — it’s her reality.

"You get to the pharmacy and you're just like, I can't get it. I don't know what I'm going to do," Brinley described.

She depends on insulin, a life-sustaining drug for people with diabetes. However, she's no stranger to the pharmacy counter — she used to be able to plan for her monthly pickup.

Unfortunately, all of that changed in an instant.

"One day, all of my co-pays went away, an

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