I read _Fatal Misconceptions_ immediately before _Wisdom of Whores_ which gave me a weird perspective on UN/global “health” movements, particularly of the we’ll do this one thing but won’t supply you with decent health care AND we’ll in fact take money away from what primary care you have for our current pet project (in _Fatal Misconceptions_, population control). I am, therefore, very sympathetic to people who hope/dream/believe that maybe money sloshing around a particular high-profile concern could be redirected to answer a dire need that is being ignored — but I have a hard time subscribing to it myself.

I also know — because I’ve only ever lived in the US — that getting people in the US to accept the idea of health care as a basic right is very, very, very hard. Which is going to be a big obstacle to getting the US to (consistently) fund something elsewhere that they can’t even bring themselves to fund at home.