It is very expensive to give bad medical care to poor people in a rich country.
Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.
The thing about rights is that in the end you can't prove what should be considered a right.
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.
That's when I feel most alive, when I'm helping people.
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.