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City tales: Uninsured workers find health care and more thanks to Good News | Jamie Dean

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MIAMI— In the shadow of Miami's sprawling skyline, the famous Calle Ocho (8th Street) winds through the city's historic neighborhood of Little Havana, home to thousands of Cuban and Hispanic immigrants.

Middle-aged men in linen shirts roll cigars on thick tables in narrow storefronts. Old men in heavy sweaters hunch over chessboards and dominos in crowded Domino Park, smoking stogies and placing bets.

Cuban immigrant Carlos Knapp makes frequent trips to Little Havana, but not for cigars or dominos. Instead, Knapp visits poor families with no health insurance. The visits are part of Knapp's job as chaplain for the Good News Care Center, a free health-care clinic operated by the Miami Baptist Association (MBA).

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