Modern medicine has presented us with a Faustian bargain: Our aging bodies can bankrupt our children and grandchildren. We have run into the 'law... →
Richard Lamm
Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
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... →
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
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... →
We spend billions on marginal and often unnecessary procedures on people who are in the final dying process, yet we leave millions of Americans out... →
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... →
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... →
Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to... →
Nick Lampson
As proud as we are of this city and as extraordinary as it is, all of south Louisiana and all of the Gulf Coast is a very special place, and the... →
Mary Landrieu