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
Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building… — 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
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
The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer an empty… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't… — 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… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
The bottom line is, until we're helping people to stop smoking, screening for breast cancer, giving Pap smears, giving prenatal care to… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
Employers love cheap labor, but a country should train its own people. — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
I think we're rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things,… — 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
