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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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Haiti is always talking about decentralization and nothing has been so obvious, perhaps a weakness, as the centralized nature of Haitian society as being revealed by the earthquake. I mean, they lost all these medical training programs because they didnt have them anywhere else. – 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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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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I am all about health… and to me, size is not what defines your health. – Teri Hatcher

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As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day – like access to school spending, access to health care and governing in a global economy. – Bill Richardson

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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented. – Eddie Bernice Johnson

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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines – that puts womens health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants. – Cynthia Nixon

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