At The Same Time, It Is Obvious

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.

Haiti Is Always Talking About Decentralization And Nothing Has Been So Obvious, Perhaps A Weakness, As The Centralized Nature Of Haitian Society As Being Revealed By The Earthquake. I Mean, They Lost All These Medical Training Programs Because They Didn't Have Them Anywhere Else.

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.

I've Been Impressed, Over The Last 15 Years, With How Often The Somewhat Conspiratorial Comments Of Haitian Villagers Have Been Proven To Be Correct When The Historical Record Is Probed Carefully.