Paul Farmer Quotes About Health Care

Quotes about: Health Care

• If access to health care is considered a human right, who is considered human enough to have that right?

  Paul Farmer

  Health, Care, Human Rights

  Paul Farmer (2004). “Pathologies of Power: Health, Human Rights, and the New War on the Poor”, p.206, Univ of California Press

• lean water and health care and school and food and tin roofs and cement floor, all of these things should constitute a set of basics that people must have as birthrights.

  Paul Farmer

  Health, School, People

• 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

  Promise, Care, Poverty

• I've been asked a lot for my view on American health care. Well, 'it would be a good idea,' to quote Gandhi.

  Paul Farmer

  Views, Ideas, Would Be

  Paul Farmer, Haun Saussy (2010). “Partner to the Poor: A Paul Farmer Reader”, p.571, Univ of California Press

• If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.

  Paul Farmer

  Country, Should Have, Retrospect

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