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So in the industrialized world, we built walls that protect us from the externalities of our energy use; we can afford to clean up acute environmental disasters; and we can also afford to adapt to chronic conditions like climate change.
They can't afford this.
How can you actually afford to treat patients when the reality of getting old looks like this?
There's not a country in the world that now is not asking whether we can afford what doctors do.
But sometimes when his female patients can't afford his services, their families give the women to Jura in exchange for medical treatment.
After I was expelled, I could not afford to sustain his treatment, and even in the last days of his life, I could not afford to take him to a hospital.
Early digital culture, and indeed, digital culture to this day, had a sense of, I would say, lefty, socialist mission about it, that unlike other things that have been done, like the invention of books, everything on the internet must be purely public, must be available for free, because if even one person cannot afford it, then that would create this terrible inequity.
It would mean first that many people, those who could afford to, would actually pay for these things.
These mothers and fathers and sons and daughters are there for one reason and one reason only: they cannot afford to pay the price of their freedom.
CA: So how many passengers can possibly afford the fortune of flying by space?
And we just can't afford that missed opportunity, because children with autism become adults with autism.
I could afford that.
Other designs I really couldn't afford, like the 1974 911 Targa.
But he hasn't paid his rent, of course, because he's paying for his HIV medication and just can't afford both.
They're killing so many people they can't even afford to bury them all in anything but these unmarked graves like this one outside of Ciudad Juarez.
Now, if she's a servant, there is no way she could afford a pair of pearl earrings.
Whether it's Akash, who comes from a small town in India and would never have access in this case to a Stanford-quality course and would never be able to afford it.
Because we cannot afford, as a society, to provide every student with an individual human tutor.
But maybe we can afford to provide each student with a computer or a smartphone.
After all, what's wrong with a world in which a worker on an iPhone assembly line can't even afford to buy one?
For example, I recently wrote an article in The New Yorker magazine, but I can't afford to buy an ad in it.
But, having had a father with heart disease, and realizing that what our family could afford was not what he should have gotten, and having a good friend step in to help, I really believe that all people deserve access to health at prices they can afford.
We've invested about 20 million dollars in 20 different enterprises, and have, in so doing, created nearly 20,000 jobs, and delivered tens of millions of services to people who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
Most people can't afford that, so let's give it away free.
It's allowing them to become more productive so that they can afford their own insurance over time, without assistance.
And he goes, "Last year, my mom passed away from breast cancer in Sri Lanka, because we couldn't afford proper treatment for her," and he said, "This mustache is my tribute to my mom."
And if you have to travel some distance farther than you can do under your own power, there's accessible vehicles, and if you can't afford one of those, there's accessible public transportation.
There were countries that did not recognize pharmaceutical product patents, such as India, and Indian pharmaceutical companies started to produce so-called generic versions, low-cost copies of antiretroviral medicines, and make them available in the developing world, and within a year the price had come down from 10,000 dollars per patient per year to 350 dollars per patient per year, and today that same triple pill cocktail is available for 60 dollars per patient per year, and of course that started to have an enormous effect on the number of people who could afford access to those medicines.
Now my grandparents are no longer living, so to honor them, I started a scholarship at the Worcester Art Museum for kids who are in difficult situations but whose caretakers can't afford the classes.
So if there's a problem with a shortage of babysitters in some parts of the country and the problem is nobody can afford the vetting and training, an investor can pay for it and the system will tithe back the enhanced earnings of the individuals for maybe the next two years.
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