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The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems.

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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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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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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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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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay. – Sallust

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I think that the millions and millions of young Americans, young Americans, who have health care today, who wouldnt have had it if the president hadnt acted are better off. – David Axelrod

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