Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.

Richard Lamm Quotes

American - Politician Born: September 12, 1935

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

Insurance, Seniors, Elderly

Our globe is under new dramatic environmental pressure: our globe is warming, our ice caps melting, our glaciers receding, our coral is dying, our soils are eroding, our water tables falling, our fisheries are being depleted, our remaining rainforests shrinking. Something is very, very wrong with our eco-system. Richard Lamm

Glaciers, Very, Depleted

America does not need another political campaign based on denial and avoidance of some of our real problems. It needs a crusade to reform and renew our country, its institutions and political system. Richard Lamm

Denial, Needs, Based

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings. Richard Lamm

Fancy, Covering, Seduced

Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system. Richard Lamm

Health, Medical, Coverage

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

Medical, Health Care Costs

The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children. Richard Lamm

Mind, New, Deal

It is clear that agriculture as we know it has experienced major changes within the life expectancy of most of us, and these changes have caused a major further deterioration of worldwide levels of nutrition. Richard Lamm

Within, Clear, Caused

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 automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children. Richard Lamm

Love, About, Automatically

Everything we do in public policy prevents us from doing something else. To govern is to choose. Richard Lamm

Doing, Govern, Public Policy

He didn't work for money. He worked because he loved kids and education. Richard Lamm

Education, Money, Worked

Aging bodies are fiscal black holes into which you can pour endless amounts of money. Richard Lamm

Black, Which, Bodies

I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements. Richard Lamm

Think, I Think, Boomers

We've got a duty to die and get out of the way with all of our machines and artificial hearts and everything else like that and let the other society, our kids, build a reasonable life. Richard Lamm

Die, Like, Other

I had a group of Hispanic Americans come into my office in 1976 who worked in a Denver packing plant. They had just been fired by their employer who turned around and hired illegal aliens for a lot less money. That had a big impact on me. Richard Lamm

Big, Been, Turned

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation. Richard Lamm

Generation, Next, Standard

History shows, in my opinion, that no nation can survive the tension, conflict and antagonism of two competing languages and cultures. It is a blessing for an individual to be bilingual; it is a curse for a society to be bilingual. Richard Lamm

Survive, Tension, Competing

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations. Richard Lamm

Failure, Liberalism, Across

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that. Richard Lamm

Politics, Love-Hate, Sure

America has to ask itself not what it wants, but what it can afford... The New Deal, in my mind, has become a raw deal for my children. Richard Lamm

Mind, New, Deal

The environment issue is hydra-headed and complicated, but it is of immense importance that we understand how fast the world is changing. Richard Lamm

Environment, Fast, How

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 we're doing in Los Angeles - did in Los Angeles and are still doing. But I think we have developed the Los Angeles model of city-building, and I think it is unfortunate. Richard Lamm

Doing, I Think, Developing

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

Living, Shoulders, Some

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it. Richard Lamm

Government, Tell, Deficits

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave. Richard Lamm

Politics, Enough, Like

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it. Richard Lamm

Want, Tell, Deficits

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