Senator Bill Frist
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first heard Jan 2025
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in a global and appreciation of the global environment, just like nutrition is a metabolic disorder, it's a global issue, coming together over a period of two years, we were totally able to reverse what up until that time, the previous 20 years since the early 1980s, had been set over in the corner and stigmatized And now there are 20 million people alive because of that legislation.
So policy can work. So we've got to stick with it.
Yeah, it is. And I'll tell you what, just from a bit from the political standpoint, and again, it's nice to put politics aside, but politics are important in our democracy and where we are today. But the language that we use is, is critical and the study of language and the storytelling, if we want to move and establish movements.
And for the HIV AIDS end of things, one of the things that we did was focus on young people and people like Jesse Helms, sort of an arch conservative who had written an article in the New York Times about how evil and immoral HIV AIDS is, and therefore we should not support any sort of helping people strike.
That changed over about two or three months as we focused on things like a drug called niverapine, which you know, and that for just... 50 cents, you can give that to somebody and that would reverse 10 million orphans out there to growing over time.
And when Jesse Helms heard that, you know, there's a really sort of cost-effective way to protect babies and future babies and orphans and people, all of a sudden he said, he became our biggest advocate and he pulled in a huge constituency and the evangelicals came on board and the right people from the left.
Family planning, another huge global issue that I've been involved with, is an issue that Republicans will turn to abortion issues and Democrats will turn to abortion issues and try to politicize it in all ways. But if you instead of you say family planning, you say that healthy timing and spacing of babies.
But you just say that all of a sudden people come to the room and I think we can do a better job. Instead of, you know, saying eat healthy or eat your vegetables at all, really do frame it. And I'll just close with saying what does speak and the Affordable Care Act. became so unpopular because it focused just on access, which is important, but it didn't focus on cost. It didn't focus on money.
To the individual person, their prices were going up and they weren't getting any more benefits. So I think the more we can translate things into cost to effectiveness to well-being, and we know that a healthier, we know For my heart transplant, my heart transplants, they would do well long-term if nutritionally and metabolically they were strong. So yeah, I did a heart transplant.
I wanted to live 50 years and it came back to nutrition and a healthier lifestyle coming in. So I think if we do translate nutrition policy, not just good, bad, eat healthier, but translate it into a healthier person is a more productive person and greater wellbeing and it means more productivity at work. does mean a growing of economy, means fewer absentee days.
The economy growing, individual well-being increased, which translates into national effects in their economy. And the Affordable Care Act, this time around, I think if we get the right language, And we do end up couching it into growth, personal growth, economic growth, productivity that the case can be made, will be made, will be listened to.
Yeah. And I think the things that people listen to us, they say, well, again, you're talking about Washington, D.C. and policy and all that stuff. And it's so far away. But it really isn't. When I left the Senate, the first thing I did is come back to Nashville, Tennessee, where I grew up, Vanderbilt and family and all. And Nashville, ironically, it's sort of a Silicon Valley of health services.
All the hospital chains, disease management chains, psychiatric hospital chains are based there. on a per capita basis, much bigger than New York or Boston or Washington in terms of the reach.
But ironically, in the Davidson County, where all these home offices are, the population health measures, and it could be metabolic disorders, diabetes, obesity, how long somebody lives, infant mortality, are higher there than other sort of brother-sister cities around the country of comparable size. And so we started a local initiative called Nashville Health.
not appointed by the mayor or the governor those are good but they tend to go away when they go away but a collaborative of 120 non-profits the academic institution partnering with government addressing these local issues and because it's not health care it's health and as you said 80 of that are things like food and housing and access to the internet that's where our focus is and we're making measurable change in the local community and i throw that out there because
Whoever's listening to us, look around. Do you have a collaborative like that addressing these issues at that ground level? And that's where this great movement can be. of educating mayors and educating governors and educating congresspeople, starting in one's own community.
Yeah, it's a great question. First of all, I'd go back and- I would vote for you, actually.
Thank you, but you're not going to have the chance to. Come on.
You know, it is interesting that people say, how are you spending your time? And first of all, as you know, I do a podcast, and that podcast is really interesting. It's called A Second Opinion. But I'm talking to people just like you are, and it's really interesting.
My particular podcast looks at this intersection of health and healing, the life that you and I live as physicians, intersected with policy, the sort of things we talk about today. And the third big bubble is innovation, the creativity innovation. So we bring people on, and not to be advertising it too much, but the interesting thing is that
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