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For many years I didn't have health insurance.

Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.

Most Americans want health insurance.

One in seven Americans, including more than 8 million children, does not have even basic healthcare coverage.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

We're the only western country that doesn't have a national health care ID.

I have argued for years that we do not have a health care system in America. We have a disease-management system - one that depends on ruinously expensive drugs and surgeries that treat health conditions after they manifest rather than giving our citizens simple diet, lifestyle and therapeutic tools to keep them healthy.

The result was, of course, that today, tragically, more than 40 million Americans don't have health insurance, and for many, not having health insurance means they don't have access to good health care.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.