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For many years I didn't have health insurance.

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.

I have nightmares that I'm going to wake up, and everyone's driving a Prius and living in a condo, and we're all getting health insurance.

I wasn't thinking about my pension plan until about two years ago. When I was in my twenties, the idea that you'd be thinking of taking a job based on its health-care policy was completely foreign. But these days young people are thinking about these things.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.