Tears at the State Capitol in St Paul as a group of mostly Democratic lawmakers heard from Minnesotans affected by the high cost of insulin

James Holt Junior’s 25-year-old son died because he had to ration insulin. Nicole Smith-Holt says to get health insurance it would have cost her son 450 dollars a month with a 76-hundred-dollar deductible

Senate Democrats are pressuring Republicans to pass a bill as soon as possible in the 2019 session. GOP leaders are not immediately available to comment.