Nancy bringing me water along the roadside east of Gomer, Ohio

Nancy bringing me water along the roadside east of Gomer, Ohio
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Nancy is 60, without work and without health insurance. She has recently moved in with her mother. She has two prescriptions which cost her $140 a month and works odd jobs to pay for one of these. She lives ‘one day at a time’ and hopes that there’ll be healthcare reform, “So people like me can get the prescriptions we need.”

We met on a porch in Gomer (she was helping to clean up someone’s home) where she brought me some juice. Here she is on the roadside near Lima, later that afternoon, bringing me a glass of water as she was driving to her mother’s place.