Reflections on Health Policy from a Former CMS Director

Andy Slavitt was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response. He is currently a commissioner on the National Academy of Medicine’s Commission on Investment Imperatives for a Healthy Nation. He was previously a working member of President Biden’s President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) working group on public health. He has led many of the nation’s most important health care initiatives, serving as President Obama’s head of Medicare and Medicaid and overseeing the turnaround, implementation and defense of the Affordable Care Act. Slavitt is the “outsider’s insider”, serving in leading private and non-profit roles in addition to his government services. He is founder and Board Chair Emeritus of United States of Care, a national non-profit health advocacy organization as
well as a founding partner of Town Hall Ventures, a healthcare firm that invests in underrepresented communities. He co-chaired a national initiative on the future of health care at the Bipartisan Policy Center. He chronicles what goes on inside the government and across the nation at town halls, in USA
Today, on his award-winning podcast In the Bubble, and formerly on Twitter. He is the author of Preventable, a best-selling account of the US’s Coronavirus response released in 2021. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School, he and his wife have two grown sons.

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