Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

There's no such thing as altruism.

What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.