{"id":153,"date":"2004-10-20T14:48:08","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T14:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=146"},"modified":"2004-10-20T14:48:08","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T14:48:08","slug":"101504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"10\/15\/04"},"content":{"rendered":"

Average Joe Buckeye Blitz cont. <\/strong><\/em> Was in Jackson, Ohio this morning. Cook Gina Pittman, 35, at the Main Street Diner here is a single parent of three children, ages 15, 13 and 8. She walks with a noticeable limp (and a lot of pain). She said she was born with a seperated disc that has progressively gotten worse and she would soon be going for an MRI to assess a situation which her doctor says almost for sure will require surgery in the near future. (MRI cost: $3,000. Ms. Pittman told me she makes: $156 a week.) She has no health insurance and said she knows between the MRI and surgery “…my credit will be ruined.” In an interview shortly after talking to Ms. Pittman, I told a reporter from the Jackson newspaper that one of the things we would push for is a National Health Care System, like there is in Canada, so people like Ms. Pittman had a safety net. (We had recently interviewed Randy Mueller M.D. in Jamestown, New York who has written the book: As Sick As It Gets <\/em>about our current health care system, and how it needs to be majorly reformed — so everyone can get adequate help. It’s only right, we also believe. That simple.) Note: One of the waitresses at the restaurant in Jackson had a t-shirt on that said: “Special of the Day: Road Kill… order at your own risk!” Yet another “average Joe” five star restaurant stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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