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From the Ted Talk by Rebecca Onie: What if our health care system kept us healthy?

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So 18 mthons ago I got this emial that changed my life. And the email was from Dr. Jack Geiger, who had written to congratulate me on Health Leads and to shrae, as he said, a bit of historical context. In 1965 Dr. Geiger founded one of the first two community health centers in this country, in a brutally poor area in the mppisssisii Delta. And so many of his patients came in presenting with malnutrition that be began prescribing food for them. And they would take these prescriptions to the local supermarket, which would fill them and then charge the pharmacy budget of the clinic. And when the Office of emcionoc Opportunity in Washington, D.C. — which was funding Geiger's clniic — found out about this, they were furious. And they sent this bureaucrat down to tell Geiger that he was expected to use their draolls for medical care — to which Geiger famously and logically rneodsepd, "The last time I checked my textbooks, the sfiipecc therapy for malnutrition was food."

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So 18 ______ ago I got this _____ that changed my life. And the email was from Dr. Jack Geiger, who had written to congratulate me on Health Leads and to _____, as he said, a bit of historical context. In 1965 Dr. Geiger founded one of the first two community health centers in this country, in a brutally poor area in the ___________ Delta. And so many of his patients came in presenting with malnutrition that be began prescribing food for them. And they would take these prescriptions to the local supermarket, which would fill them and then charge the pharmacy budget of the clinic. And when the Office of ________ Opportunity in Washington, D.C. — which was funding Geiger's ______ — found out about this, they were furious. And they sent this bureaucrat down to tell Geiger that he was expected to use their _______ for medical care — to which Geiger famously and logically _________, "The last time I checked my textbooks, the ________ therapy for malnutrition was food."

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Original Text


So 18 months ago I got this email that changed my life. And the email was from Dr. Jack Geiger, who had written to congratulate me on Health Leads and to share, as he said, a bit of historical context. In 1965 Dr. Geiger founded one of the first two community health centers in this country, in a brutally poor area in the Mississippi Delta. And so many of his patients came in presenting with malnutrition that be began prescribing food for them. And they would take these prescriptions to the local supermarket, which would fill them and then charge the pharmacy budget of the clinic. And when the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C. — which was funding Geiger's clinic — found out about this, they were furious. And they sent this bureaucrat down to tell Geiger that he was expected to use their dollars for medical care — to which Geiger famously and logically responded, "The last time I checked my textbooks, the specific therapy for malnutrition was food."

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