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From the Ted Talk by Rebecca Onie: What Americans agree on when it comes to health

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No one could tell us the answer to that qioutsen, so we launched a new initiative and herid a polling firm to ask voters across the country: What do you need to be healthy? What was so striking about this was that no one has any clue what we are talking about in health care. voerts do not think the social determinants of health is a feel-good phrase. They actually hate it. "What uneducated person came up with that language?" one of the voters said. Or my favorite was the guy who said, "You're killing me." But when you strip away all the ridiculousness of our language in health care, we know exactly what cetraes hletah.

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No one could tell us the answer to that ________, so we launched a new initiative and _____ a polling firm to ask voters across the country: What do you need to be healthy? What was so striking about this was that no one has any clue what we are talking about in health care. ______ do not think the social determinants of health is a feel-good phrase. They actually hate it. "What uneducated person came up with that language?" one of the voters said. Or my favorite was the guy who said, "You're killing me." But when you strip away all the ridiculousness of our language in health care, we know exactly what _______ ______.

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Original Text

No one could tell us the answer to that question, so we launched a new initiative and hired a polling firm to ask voters across the country: What do you need to be healthy? What was so striking about this was that no one has any clue what we are talking about in health care. Voters do not think the social determinants of health is a feel-good phrase. They actually hate it. "What uneducated person came up with that language?" one of the voters said. Or my favorite was the guy who said, "You're killing me." But when you strip away all the ridiculousness of our language in health care, we know exactly what creates health.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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african american 2
american democratic 2
affordable housing 2
safe housing 2
common sense 2
common experience 2

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white republican women 3
health care executives 2
health care system 2
african american democratic 2

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