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Andy Slavitt        

USofCare Co-Founder & Board Chair Emeritus; Former Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Andy Slavitt is the Co-Founder and Board Chair Emeritus of USofCare, 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 was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response and is a member of a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology 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 has served in leading private and non-profit roles in addition to his government experiences. 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 on Twitter. He is the author of "Preventable", a national best-selling account of the US’s Coronavirus response.

He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School.

Speech Topics


Competing and Winning in a Changing Health Care Risk Environment

How the rules for insurance companies are changing and what will separate the winners from the losers.

healthcare.gov - Inside the Biggest Turnaround in Government

A look at what went wrong, how it could have been prevented and what the team assembled to save healthcare.gov did to turn it around in record time.

How Health Care Decisions are Really Made in DC

Behind the scenes look at how the rules that impact the healthcare world are developed at the White House, HHS and Congress.

Health Care Reform in the Age of Trump

A look at how the new congress and White House are making decisions that will affect millions of American’s access to healthcare. A discussion of the real degrees of freedom available to reformers, and insight into the possible outcomes.

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