What Americans agree on when it comes to health | Rebecca Onie

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🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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We may not be as deeply divided as we think -- at least not when it comes to health, says Rebecca Onie. In a talk that cuts through the noise, Onie shares research that shows how, even across economic, political and racial divides, Americans agree on what they need to live good lives -- and asks both health care providers and patients to focus on what makes us healthy, not what makes us angry.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features health services innovator Rebecca O'ney,
0:04.7	recorded live at TED Salon Optum, 2018.
0:10.2	Today, we are a country divided, or at least that's what we're told.
0:15.3	We are torn apart by immigration, education, guns, and health care.
0:22.3	Health care is ugly, and it is loud,
0:25.6	so loud that it threatens to drown out everything else.
0:29.6	Health care is a human right, fight, fight, fight, right.
0:33.2	But what if underneath all the noise were not divided?
0:42.3	What if the things that we don't ask about are the things that we most agree upon?
0:47.8	It turns out that when we ask the right questions, the answers are startling.
0:53.2	Because we agree not on health care, but on something more
0:57.9	important. We agree on health. For 20 years, I've been obsessed with one question. What do we,
1:06.7	what do all of us need in order to be healthy? As a college student in 1995, I spent months talking with physicians at a chaotic hospital in Boston,
1:17.2	asking them, what's the one thing your patients most need to be healthy?
1:22.6	They shared the same story again and again, one that I've heard hundreds of variations of since.
1:29.2	They say every day I see a patient with an asthma exacerbation and I prescribe a controller
1:33.8	medication, but I know she is living in a mold-infested apartment. Or I see a kid with an ear
1:40.3	infection and I prescribe antibiotics, but I know there is no food at home. And I don't
1:46.4	ask about those issues because there's nothing I can do. Now, it seemed that it shouldn't be so
1:52.3	complicated to design a doctor's visit around what people actually need to be healthy. So I created
1:58.9	health leads in organization enabling thousands of physicians and other
2:03.1	caregivers to ask their patients, what do you need to be healthy? And then prescribe those things.
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