Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers … tort lawyers love to point out that 1%… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
We need to start training more primary health providers and fewer specialists. We will never be able to control health care costs… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
'Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop. I believe that what we're developing in Denver is in no appreciable way different than what… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
I've had some major disappointments. The quality of life in Denver is worse than when I took over, and I'm embarrassed about that. But… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity. — Richard Lamm Copy Share
It was almost a desecration to put a building on the Boulder Turnpike, which is now U.S.-36 and is almost backyards and even junkyards… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
I believe for some high-technology medicine, like transplants and kidney dialysis, age should be a consideration in the delivery of that technology. In a… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever. — Richard Lamm Copy Share
A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced… — Richard Lamm Copy Share
Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law. — Richard Lamm Copy Share
