Sentences with phrase «giving affordable medicines»

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With cost containment becoming the new buzzword in medicine — particularly given the much - ridiculed but far from unreasonable apprehension that the Affordable Care Act could lead to «death panels» — a reader may worry that Gawande recommends forcing the weakest and most vulnerable out of the lifeboat if they refuse to jump themselves.

«Given a health - care system lacking decent equipment, qualified staff and affordable drugs (rather than the more popular counterfeit ones), a lack of faith in Western medicine is understandable.

Priority should be given to preventive measures including clean air and water and adequate sanitation, and to affordable health care and medicines (including free provisioning to the poor), as far as possible empowering communities and individuals to manage these; and health care should combine various traditional and modern systems.