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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
By Julie Appleby, KFF Health News

A Texas boy needed protection from measles. The vaccine cost $1,400.


In the early days of the West Texas measles outbreak, Thang Nguyen eyed the rising number of cases and worried. His 4-year-old son was at risk because he had received only the first of the vaccine’s two doses.

So, in mid-March, he took his family to a primary care clinic at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.

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