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So I cant show you how, exactly, health care is a basic human righ

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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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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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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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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Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause. – Nathaniel Branden

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If Charlton Heston can have a constitutional right carry a rifle, why cant grandma have a constitutional right to health care? – Al Sharpton

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Preserving the health by too strict a regimen is a wearisome malady. – François Duc de la Rochefoucauld

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Smoking is the now the principal avoidable cause of premature death in Britain. It hits the worst off people hardest of all. Smoking is one of the principal causes of the health gap which leads to poorer people being ill more often and dying sooner. – Frank Dobson

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