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Weve taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculo

Weve taken on the major health problems of the poorest – tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria – in four countries. Weve scored some victories in the sense that weve cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible. – 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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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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Health
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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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Since the 1960s, there has been a tremendous expansion of the resources available to pay for health care. – Phil Bredesen

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We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and were surrendering it all at the same time. – Paul Hawken

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Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the Presidents mind. – Valerie Jarrett

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It is essential that the womens preventive coverage benefit, including contraception, be available to all women, regardless of what health plan they have or where they work – as Congress intended. Providing access to birth control just makes good sense. – Gwen Moore

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Am I lying to you if I tell you the same lie I tell myself? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. Dont bother us with politics, respond those who dont want to learn. – Richard Stallman

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In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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