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Millions of Americans, adults and children, lack access to dental care.

We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out of the health insurance system, and America's kids have the worst dental health in the developed world.

Low-income people, racial or ethnic minorities, pregnant women, seniors, people with special needs, people in rural areas - they all have a much harder time accessing a dentist than other groups of Americans.

America's health care system is the most complicated and expensive in the world.

Most every dental school has discount dental services.

While most Americans have access to the best oral health care in the world, low-income children suffer disproportionately from oral disease.

Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.

I've been giving free money seminars for the troops at Walter Reed Hospital and one of the Iraqi War Vets realized that the military wouldn't pay for the dental work he needed.

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food.

America enjoys the best health care in the world, but the best is no good if folks can't afford it, access it and doctor's can't provide it.