Paul Farmer Ideas Quotations

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

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

The poorest parts of the world are by and large the places in which one can best view the worst of medicine and not because doctors in these countries have different ideas about what constitutes modern medicine. It's the system and its limitations that are to blame.

The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might be viewed as a right.

The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.