For many years I didn't have health insurance.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.
Today right here in America we have 50 million people without health insurance.
I grew up on a farm. I didn't have health insurance until I was 24 years old. So, I didn't even know I was poor until the government told me I was poor.
Everyone should have health insurance? I say everyone should have health care. I'm not selling insurance.
I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.
When Obamacare actually kicked in, just as we knew, if you liked your insurance, as I did - I had a health savings account - then I wasn't going to be able to keep it because it doesn't meet the requirements.
I spent 28 years working in healthcare. I thought I'd retired from non-profit community health care.
In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.
I went without health insurance until 'Roger & Me,' basically - from about age 20 till about age 35. With 'Roger & Me,' I joined the Directors Guild and the Writers Guild, and since then I've had excellent health care managed by the union.
America doesn't have health insurance.