It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.

The world is full of miserable places. One way of living comfortably is not to think about them or, when you do, to send money

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.

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

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.

You can't have public health without working with the public sector. You can't have public education without working with the public sector in education.

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