Writing in Sunday's Denver Post, former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm writes that "[r]ationing is the price an aging society must pay to prevent health care from crowding out all other public needs." We should, Lamm argues, "shift our emphasis from quantity of life to the quality of life. If we put death in perspective and use fewer desperate measures to extend life, we would free up money to spend on improving the quality of our lives."
Lamm argues, among other things:
- No nation can escape weighing costs and benefits and setting limits on marginal care.
- No citizen can expect, in this time of technological marvels, public programs or insurance companies to pay for all the health care that modern medicine can provide.
"We can't allow everyone to attempt to buy immortality with public money."
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