Nothing is more valuable to people than health care, and by paying, they feel less like beggars and more like 'customers' who can and should demand quality care.
Interpretation
Access to quality health care empowers individuals and enhances their dignity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of health care as a fundamental value for individuals. By fostering a system where people can pay for their health care, they are transformed from feeling dependent to feeling empowered as customers who deserve high-quality services. This shift not only improves access to necessary medical care but also enhances the dignity and self-worth of individuals seeking those services.
In practice
In a public speech about health reform, this quote can highlight the dignity that comes with access to quality care.
Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.
What I did not know yet about hunger, but would find out over the next twenty-one years, was that brilliant theorists of economics do not find it worthwhile to spend time discussing issues of poverty and hunger. They believe that these will be resolved when general economic prosperity increases. These economists spend all their talents detailing the process of development and prosperity, but rarely reflect on the origin and development of poverty and hunger. A a result, poverty continues.
People.. were poor not because they were stupid or lazy. They worked all day long, doing complex physical tasks. They were poor because the financial institution in the country did not help them widen their economic base.
Some people think that poor people are lazy. Actually, it takes a lot of work to survive when you are dirt-poor.
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society - how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair.
By simply capitalizing on core strengths and knowledge, companies and entrepreneurs can engage in an emerging business model that will enable them to create - and demonstrate - real, sustainable social impact in society.
The unique function of the nurse is to assist the individual, sick or well, in the performance of those activities contributing to health or its recovery (or to peaceful death) that he would perform unaided if he had the necessary strength, will or knowledge. And to do this in such a way as to help him gain independence as rapidly as possible.
I want people to start thinking about what it means to be HIV-positive and to ask questions about that.
Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.
People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.
Regular practise of yoga can help you face the turmoil of life with steadiness and stability
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