Advance Quote by Richard Lamm

It is time to maximize and prioritize our health care dollars.

— Jane D. Hull

Health care is not just another commodity. It is not a gift to be rationed based on the ability to pay. It is time…

— Edward Kennedy

Our health care is rationed by wealth.

— Noam Chomsky

“Per capita health care cost in the United States surpasses that of most other developed countries. Despite this, U.S. costs are rising at comparable…

— Michael E. Porter

Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just…

— Atul Gawande

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly…

— Kathleen Sebelius

“Other countries spend, on average, only about one-half of what the U.S. spends per capita on health care. Isn’t it reasonable, therefore, for us…

— T. Colin Campbell

We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health…

— Michael Moore

“Government has every incentive to ration care for the sick and lavish attention on the healthy.”

— Regina Herzlinger

The chronically ill and those toward the end of their lives are accounting for potentially 80% of the total health care bill out there.…

— Donald Berwick

It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.

— Richard Lamm

I believe we can incentivize more affordable health care in general by better regulating insurance and creating meaningful competition for health care services.

— Amy Klobuchar