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
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldnt be such a big deal. – Paul Farmer
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
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
When bureaucrats talk about increasing our access to x, y or z, what theyre really talking about is increasing exponentially their control over our lives. As it is with the government health care takeover, so it is with the newly approved government plan to increase Internet access. – Michelle Malkin