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

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

I critique market-based medicine not because I haven't seen its heights but because I've seen its depths.

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.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.