Jackson Free Press

"Prior to Obamacare, the individual insurance market was a more viable option for people who did not have access to group health insurance. By design, the law gutted the market and replaced it with the heavily regulated, astronomically expensive but often heavily publicly subsidized individual policies."

—Republican Gov. Phil Bryant in a statement for a lengthy Politico story about his opposition to providing more health-care coverage to Mississippians through the Affordable Care Act.

Why it stinks: Despite the early problems with the online health-care exchanges and other bugs, every day new information emerges about the financial and health benefits of the ACA. Not only does Bryant continue to ignore these facts, presumably for political reasons, he still hasn't offered any comprehensive plan to improve the quality of health care in Mississippi, the nation's unhealthiest state by most measures. Clearly, the governor has no such plan or he would have granted Politico an interview rather than communicating through statements and spokespeople.