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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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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Medical
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The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, theyre major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems. – Paul Farmer

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Health
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Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation that is making America less competitive in the global economy. – John Conyers

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Health

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired. – Author Unknown

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Health

If Obamacare is allowed to stand – and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory – there will be no meaningful limit on Washingtons reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended. – John Cornyn

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Health

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. – Charles Baudelaire

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Health

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Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it. – John Moore

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Horses

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances. – Julie Bishop

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Medical

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time. – Frank Norris

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Beauty

Theres no environment. Use your imagination. Theres no fourth wall, whether its the first time youve told this story about her life, or the sixth time. – Jill Clayburgh

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Imagination