"Anywhere you have extreme poverty and no national health insurance, no promise of health care regardless of social standing, that's where you see the sharp limitations of market-based health care."
-Paul Farmer
HealthView Quote
"If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's 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
posted in Positive
Other Quotes by Paul Farmer
Discover more inspiring quotes by 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 didn't have them anywhere else."
-Paul Farmer
MedicalView Quote
"I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal."
-Paul Farmer
MedicalView Quote
"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
MedicalView Quote
"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."
-Paul Farmer
MedicalView Quote
"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
HealthView Quote
Same Category
More quotes in this category
"A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results."
-Wade Boggs
PositiveView Quote
"Surround yourself with positive people."
-Melanie Fiona
PositiveView Quote
"Positive feelings come from being honest about yourself and accepting your personality, and physical characteristics, warts and all and, from belonging to a family that accepts you without question."
-Willard Scott
PositiveView Quote
"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."
-Albert J. Nock
PositiveView Quote
"In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision."
-Dalai Lama
PositiveView Quote
"Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you're going to live your life."
-Joel Osteen
PositiveView Quote