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.

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.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.

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

I think that looking forward it's easy to imagine more constructive help for Haiti.

If I am hungry, that is a material problem; if someone else is hungry, that is a spiritual problem.