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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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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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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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Health
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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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There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France – I dont know about England – that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health. – Karl Lagerfeld

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Health

Weve had Town Hall meetings, weve witnessed election after election, in which the American people have taken a position on the Presidents health care bill. And the bottom line is the people dont like this bill. They dont want it. – Eric Cantor

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Health

Challenges of historic import threaten Americas future. Action on the deficit, economy, energy, health care and much more is imperative, yet our legislative institutions fail to act. Congress must be reformed. – Evan Bayh

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Health

In the field of health care, we are giving people access to insurance who have not had it before. – Christine Gregoire

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Health

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Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. – Jef Raskin

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Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith. – Eric Hoffer

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No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity, if you cant look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished? – Lee Iacocca

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. – William Butler Yeats

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