Nectar, Alabama, isn't a place you are likely to find a lot of Democrats, much less Obamacare enthusiasts.
The little town of 348 folks in Blount County is just northeast of Birmingham. They used to have a covered bridge there, but it burned down in 1993.
But it does have Hank Adcock, a farmer who was badly injured this summer when both hands got caught in a hay baler.
Hank managed to free himself and drive his stick shift vehicle to a neighbor's house. He was then able to be treated for his injuries thanks to -- you guessed it -- Obamacare.
But they aren't particularly rich, which is why the Adcocks didn't have health coverage since the late 1980s. The family couldn't afford to pay nearly $1,200 a month for a policy.
The Obamacare policy they signed up for last year cost $102 a month, and it completely covered Hank's $63,000 hospital bill. Without it, the family could have been financially ruined.
"I tell everyone I can about Obamacare, but some people don't want nothing to do with it." Adcock said.
Indeed. Some people, actually a lot of people in Alabama, just don't want to listen when they hear the word Obamacare.
But things may be turning a bit in Alabama. Gov. Robert Bentley is edging ever so closely to accepting the inevitable -- Medicaid expansion.
"You know I wouldn't say nudging toward it," said Bentley. "But we are certainly looking at that; not right now. We are not at that stage right now."
But then the governor added this when asked about remarks he had just made to a group of seniors about the need to improve healthcare in rural areas and how Medicaid expansion might come into play:
"But you know we do have to realistically look at whether we have adequate funding for rural doctors, primary care doctors. They cannot treat a third of their patients and stay in business. It is a business they run," said the governor.
It can't come quickly enough. There are
an estimated 139,000 people in Alabama who would benefit from Medicaid expansion, not to mention all the rural hospitals that serve many of those folks.
Folks like Hank Adcock, who might have been ruined without that program that Ben Carson says is the worst thing since slavery..
"I'd a lost the farm, I guess," said Adcock.