Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour got into trouble with Obamacare supporters when he told the Boston Globe on Wednesday that "there's nobody in Mississippi who does not have access to health care" despite the fact the state boasts some of the country's worst health statistics.
Mississippi has an 18 percent uninsured rate, a 28 percent poverty rate and suffers from the country's highest obesity rates (44.4 percent of children in the state are overweight or obese), according to Kaiser state health facts.
"One of the great problems in the conversation is the misimpression that if you don't have insurance, you don't get health care," Barbour said.
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