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Hello, everybody. Welcome to Health Chatter. We're all hoping that you're having a great summer and staying cool. There's a lot of heat going on around the country. So we're hoping that everybody is staying safe. We've got a great show today, just with three of us from the Health Chatter team. And we're going to be talking about politics and its effects on health. And I assume
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So today, Clarence, you and I are going to talk about the politics of health. around health. And, you know, I can, I can start this out. You know, I, I work for the state of Minnesota and, um, you know, there's things that happen at the state level. There's things that happen at the local county levels. There's obviously things that happen at the, um, at the federal level.
And, um, as I think about it, um, I recognized, and as I reflect on it, I recognize that people in general, I don't think are really aware of what happens at each of those different levels of government. You know, the politics of it we'll get to in a second.
But certainly, you know, all right, if you were going to just talk to somebody on the street and ask them, do you know what your state health department does? Or do you know what your local health department does? Do you know what your federal government does? I don't think people have a clue. What do you think about that?
You know, I would agree with that wholeheartedly. I think that when I... speak to people and i talk about some of these things there is not a connection made between politics and health it is it's just there uh i remember this is so funny i remember when i used to not like uh certain certain governmental bodies
uh because you know something happened and i didn't really understand how politics worked in it and you have to realize that that in this particular arena there are a variety of other factors and so uh for me when i go out to the community i don't think a lot of people make the connection yeah between health politics you know what can you do how can you be involved all those kinds of things so i'm in total agreement with you there is a political
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