I do not believe you can have infinite population or economic growth in a finite world. We are living on the shoulders of some awesome geometric curves. Richard Lamm Read Quote
We must recognize that all the civil rights laws in the world are not going to solve the problem of minority underachievement. Ultimately, blacks and Hispanics are going to have to see that their solution is largely in their own hands. Richard Lamm Read Quote
I believe a nation does not maximize its health care until it starts to ask the hard question: How can we prioritize our expenditures to buy the most health care for the most people? We should not apologize for rationing; we should promote it and advance it. Richard Lamm Read Quote
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, everyday basic medicine to those who now have none. Richard Lamm Read Quote
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 cost only a few people. Richard Lamm Read Quote
I think we’re rapidly approaching the day where medical science can keep people alive in hospitals, hooked up to tubes and things, far beyond when any kind of quality of life is left at all. Richard Lamm Read Quote
We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. Richard Lamm Read Quote
The U.S. needs to do more than change presidents. It needs to change its political culture. Richard Lamm Read Quote
I think modern societies have to ask a very basic question: What strategies buy the most health for people? Doctors can do so many marvelous things now. They can keep a corpse alive, almost. Richard Lamm Read Quote
Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they’re getting their money back. So it isn’t selfishness as much as a misunderstanding. Richard Lamm Read Quote
