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R D Lamm

Publications and source records attributed to R D Lamm.

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PubMed1993

The Democratic Party takes on healthcare reform.

The public is expecting delivery on the Democratic Party's election promises of healthcare reform. Now, with a Democrat in the White House and a Democratic majority in Congress, the time seems ripe for real reform. But unity continues to elude the party on this hot issue, says former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm.

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PubMed1991

The brave new world of health care.

We are rapidly entering into a brave new world of health care. Infinite medical demands have run smack into finite resources. We can't pay for everything but we can spend our limited resources in a much more health-effective way. We have no other alternative but to devise systems that give us maximum health to our society with our limited resources. It is time to begin this process.

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PubMed1990

High technology health care.

High technology medicine often harms more people than it saves. The resources that are spent in too many of our high technology procedures could be far more effectively used to save far more lives in other parts of the system. High technology health care is thus a blessing and a curse. It is a blessing if it is used correctly, but tragically it is too often a curse, stealing resources desperately needed elsewhere.

Delivery of Health Care↗
PubMed1990

High-tech health care and society's ability to pay.

The nation's failure to admit that it cannot afford everything medical science has invented has led to its failure to contain healthcare cost. To avert a collapse of the system, citizens and policy makers must come to grips with the fact that they cannot do everything for everyone. In fact, more lives may be saved by ensuring less expensive preventive health care for all Americans.

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PubMed1988

Health care as economic cancer.

The escalation of health care as a percentage of gross national product has impaired the United States' ability to compete effectively in the international marketplace. It has produced a misallocation of resources such that funds are not adequately affected to refurbishing the nation's infrastructure, yet there has been no demonstrable improvement in the quality of health. Capital-intensive procedures have prolonged life of the elderly, preserved high-risk neonates, and allowed the application of organ transplantation in dramatic cases. This has resulted in insufficient moneys available for preventive medicine, prenatal care, and the provision of basic medical services for 35 million currently uninsured citizens. There has been a general shift in entitlements favoring the elderly to the detriment of the young. A reevaluation of our priorities in the allocation of recources in health care is in order.

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PubMed1986

Infinite needs: finite resources. The 1986 Harvey Cushing oration.

In this 199th year of constitutional government in the United States a careful evaluation of all our basic institutions is required if this country is to remain a great nation. The delivery of health care, a basic institution, must be included in the determination of how finite resources can be most effectively and efficiently used for what appears to be almost infinite needs.

Delivery of Health Care↗