"(The Affordable Care Act) is going to be a train wreck, and I do not want the name of Mississippi emblazoned across that train when it leaves the tracks."
—Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, on Bloomberg TV's "Capitol Gains" show July 7.
Why it stinks: "Mississippi" is already emblazoned at or near the top of lists of states rife with diabetes, obesity and teen pregnancy, mostly because of our woefully inadequate health-care system.
Bryant went on to call the Affordable Care Act "the worst system of delivering health care known to man." The United Nations World Health Organization disagrees. They rank the United States 38th in the world in health-care system efficiency, and every one of the 32 nations ranked head of the United States has some form of universal health care.
Worse, the last nation to get it before us was Israel ... in 1995.
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