Ah, Hialeah. Once the home of jai-alai, horse racing and Amelia Earhart's last US takeoff, the quaint South Florida hamlet — formerly a haven for the white elite — is now 74 percent Cuban-American. In fact, it has the highest percentage of Cuban and Cuban-American residents than any city in the United States.
And now, guess what? Hialeah has two of the five zip codes with the most Obamacare enrollments in the country. Wow!
So how is that possible? You could probably cite the 25 percent of the Hialeah population that lives below the poverty line, or the effective Obamacare marketing campaign that the feds have conducted (gosh, who knew?). But that just makes us cats wonder: What happened to the Republican messaging campaign on Obamacare? A dismal failure, yes?
Because Republicans — like Jeb! Bush and Baby Marco Rubio, just to name two — have been screaming since 2010 that the Affordable Care Act is the worst catastrophe in the history of Western civilization. Why, then, has Hialeah not listened?
Of course, on the other hand, in 2013 Baby Marco enrolled his family in healthcare coverage through the ACA exchange — taking the government subsidy that's offered to elected officials and their staff.
What a putrid hypocrite Baby Marco is. But at least that kinda explains his community's affection for a law he hates. Or does it? We cats switch our tails and wait for an answer.
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