Quote by Paul Farmer
Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance

Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, thats where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care. – Paul Farmer

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If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know its hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. – Paul Farmer

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positive
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But if youre asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick. – Paul Farmer

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Health
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So I cant show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human right. But what I can argue is that no one should have to die of a disease that is treatable. – Paul Farmer

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I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyones awareness of the need to improve public health. – Lois Capps

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Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body. – Cicero

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Health

Ive never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones. – Salman Rushdie

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Health

Americas doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken. – Mike Ferguson

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Health

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He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world. – Horace

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Money wont create success, the freedom to make it will. – Nelson Mandela

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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. – Elia Kazan

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A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted. – Helen Rowland

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