America with 4% of the world's population has 50% of the worlds lawyers … tort lawyers love to point out that 1% of America's health care cost is used to pay malpractice insurance ... but most doctors practice defensive medicine… — 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 unless we challenge the over-emphasis on medical research, specialists and technology and put more emphasis on delivering good,… — 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 Image
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 Image
I believe we all must face the fact of death. It is both gift and curse. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
