Richard Lamm Quotes

My contention is that if we expand the patient-centered health care approach, we'll have less people that have to go the medical clinic that provides free service or go to the emergency room - they can have their own health care plan.

I have profoundly mixed feelings about the Affordable Care Act. What I love about it is its impulse. It attempts to deal with this intractable problem in American health care life, which is that a significant portion of the population does not have access to quality medical care.

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

I believe health care is a civil right.

Universal coverage is a critical goal, but even if every man and woman, every parent and every child in America woke up with an insurance card in their hands, they would still need a place to go for health care.

Everyone should have the opportunity to get affordable, quality health coverage.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

All Americans should have access to quality, affordable health care.

Every American has a right to affordable, high-quality health care.

The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Let's make health care a meritocracy. Access to the best care goes to people who did what they could to avoid becoming ill.

We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.

We are making health care a human right which, after all, is the purpose of Obamacare.

Everyone in this country has a right to quality, affordable health care.

In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what?

We need more access to quality health care, not less.

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.

Health care should be affordable for everyone.

Today we have a health insurance industry where the first and foremost goal is to maximize profits for shareholders and CEOs, not to cover patients who have fallen ill or to compensate doctors and hospitals for their services. It is an industry that is increasingly concentrated and where Americans are paying more to receive less.

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.

The time is now for Congress to address health care in America.

Obamacare is simply incapable of doing what it is supposed to do - provide nearly universal care at an affordable and sustainable cost.

I believe in health care reform.