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> [Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law of diminishing returns' in health care, where we are often doing more and more, with higher…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/modern-medicine-has-presented-us-with-a-faustian-bargain-our-aging/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

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> [The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to pregnant women, we should not go into publicly paying for the artificial heart, which will benefit at great…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/the-bottom-line-is-until-we-re-helping-people-to-stop-smoking/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

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## Other authors on Benefit

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## More by Richard Lamm

> ['Diversity' is a wonderfully seductive word. It stresses differences rather than commonalities. Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other - that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/diversity-is-a-wonderfully-seductive-word-it-stresses-differences/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/history-shows-in-my-opinion-that-no-nation-can-survive-the-tension/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [Sprawl is the American ideal way to develop.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/sprawl-is-the-american-ideal-way-to-develop/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [I have no permanent enemies - only people I have yet to persuade.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/i-have-no-permanent-enemies-only-people-i-have-yet-to-persuade/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/i-believe-we-all-must-face-the-fact-of-death-it-is-both-gift-and-curse/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [All we know about the new economic world is that nations which train engineers will prevail over those which train lawyers. No nation has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/all-we-know-about-the-new-economic-world-is-that-nations-which-train/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/sprawl-is-the-american-ideal-way-to-develop-i-believe-that-what-we-re/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/i-ve-had-some-major-disappointments-the-quality-of-life-in-denver-is/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/we-can-make-the-united-states-a-hispanic-quebec-without-much-effort/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/it-was-almost-a-desecration-to-put-a-building-on-the-boulder-turnpike/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/america-has-to-ask-itself-not-what-it-wants-but-what-it-can-afford/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/i-believe-for-some-high-technology-medicine-like-transplants-and/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [God is not an American. Nature did not design Americans to be prosperous forever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/god-is-not-an-american-nature-did-not-design-americans-to-be/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/a-truly-moral-health-care-system-should-start-out-by-covering-all-of/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

> [Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-lamm/amnesty-is-a-big-billboard-a-flashing-billboard-to-the-rest-of-the/)

[Richard Lamm](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-lamm/)

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