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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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It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care. – Paul Farmer

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Imagination
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Paul Farmer
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You cant have public health without a public health system. We just dont want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system. – Paul Farmer

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Health
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Paul Farmer
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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they cant get medical care or clean water. – Paul Farmer

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Medical
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Health
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The reality is that the special interest groups that have lobbied against Free Choice Vouchers object to any measure that would empower employees to have a say in their health benefits because it begins to erode their power in the current health care system. – Ron Wyden

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Health

Under the Healthy Americans Act, youre in charge of your health care – not your employer. If you lose your job, change jobs or just cant find a job, your health insurance is guaranteed to stick with you. – Ron Wyden

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Health

Nearly all men die of their remedies, and not of their illnesses. РJean Baptiste Moli̬re, Le Malade Imaginaire

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Health

Health is the first muse, comprising the magical benefits of air, landscape, and bodily exercise on the mind. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims, “Inspiration”

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Health

Random Quotes

So, President Obama wants to change America. I understand that. We dont need to change America. We need to change the White House. We need to change the leadership in the White House. – Mario Diaz-Balart

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I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. – Lena Dunham

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No dance has ever turned out the way I thought it would, because I trust enough that I can start something with some ideas and then it takes itself somewhere. – Mark Morris

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Trust

For one thing, I teach my students what my teacher for twenty years, Paul Gavert, told me, The voice follows… the voice follows everything about you… who you are. – Betty Buckley

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teacher