"You can’t have public health without a public health system. We just don’t want to be part of a mindless competition for resources. We want to build back capacity in the system."
― Paul Farmer
Topic(s):
Health
More From Paul Farmer
- "Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My patients in Haiti can now vote but they can’t get medical care or clean water."
- "I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn’t be such a big deal."
- "So I can’t 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."
More In Health
- "Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn’t organized to serve human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people sick than it heals."― Ivan Illich
- "I have stood on the front lines of the health care system as a doctor, patient and concerned parent. Those experiences have served as my guideposts throughout the struggle to reform America’s health care system. And it’s those same experiences that tell me that fear and election hysteria should not overshadow the reality of reform."― Jim McDermott
- "The fact is that you could not be, and still cannot be, a 25-year-old homosexual trying to make it in the British film business or the American film business or even the Italian film business. It just doesn’t work and you’re going to hit a brick wall at some point."― Rupert Everett