Andy Slavitt

Andy Slavitt    (businessman, deep state operative, handler?)
Born	1966
Nationality	US
Ethnicity	Jewish
Alma mater	University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, Harvard University
Interests	• McKinsey & Company • Goldman Sachs
White House Senior Advisor for the COVID-19 Response In office January 20, 2021 - June 9, 2021 Employer Biden administration  Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services In office March 18, 2015 - January 20, 2017 Employer Medicare Appointed by Barak Obama

Andrew M. Slavitt is an American businessman and pharma lobbyist who was administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services from March 2015 to January 2017 and Senior Advisor to the COVID-19 Response Coordinator in the Biden administration.

Education

Slavitt is the son of Earl Benton Slavitt, a Chicago attorney. He is a graduate of both The College of Arts and Sciences and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1993.

Early Career

Slavitt's career was initially in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. After receiving his MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company as a consultant.

In 1999, Slavitt founded the "healthcare" company HealthAllies., where he was CEO until 2003, when the company was acquired by UnitedHealth Group. After that, he became CEO of OptumInsight and the group executive vice president for Optum, both subsidiaries of UnitedHealth Group. In February 2008, Optum, then named Ingenix, was the center of an investigation by New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo into a scheme by health insurers to defraud consumers by manipulating reimbursement rates. On January 13, 2009, Ingenix announced an agreement with the New York State attorney settling the probe into the independence of the health pricing database. Under the settlement, UnitedHealth Group and Ingenix would pay $50 million. On January 15, 2009, UnitedHealth Group announced a $350 million settlement of three class action lawsuits filed in federal court by the American Medical Association, UnitedHealth Group members, healthcare providers, and state medical societies for not paying out-of-network benefits.

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Optum, where Slavitt was working as executive vice president, was hired by the Obama administration to lead turnaround efforts for the Obamacare exchange website Healthcare.gov. In 2014, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell named Slavitt to a newly created second-in-command position at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) titled Principal Deputy Administrator that would allow him to continue to work on Healthcare.gov remedies and other programs from within the government as well as giving him authority over policy and coordination between the agency’s programs. His leaving the private sector and joining CMS reportedly caused him to net $2 million from the sale of his UnitedHealth stock.

In 2015, CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner resigned from her position, and Slavitt was elevated to become Acting Administrator of CMS. Slavitt was later nominated by President Barack Obama to be CMS Administrator, but his nomination was never confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Slavitt led the agency in an acting capacity from 2015 until the Obama administration ended in 2017.

Big Pharma lobbyist

In 2017 Slavitt was the organizer of a number of town hall meetings in Republican-held Congress seats to put pressure on the congressmen, to hinder the repeal of a "healthcare" law. Who paid him for this work was not disclosed. In 2018 he became chair of the lobby group United States of Care.

Covid narrative manager

Slavitt was early promoted in corporate media. On February 25, 2020, Slavitt appeared as a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews to spread fear of a virus. Two weeks later, on March 7, Slavitt published an open letter to American governors on Medium detailing a potential shortage of hospital beds and ventilators due to COVID-19's rapid spread. On March 18, he was one of the creators of a "stay at home" campaign, sending a letter to all 50 governors and the country's top 50 mayors, calling for lockdowns, "testing" and other measures, asking the governors to "reevaluate any regulations that impede" this.

Handler of Tim Walz?

Slavitt, who later became a senior "healthcare" advisor in the Joe Biden administration was among Walz' top advisers during the early implementation of Covid in 2020. An October 2020 profile of Slavitt called him a "a friend and trusted adviser" to the governor. At the time, Slavitt was among the loudest and most aggressive pro-lockdown advocates on Twitter and in corporate media.

Family victim

At a May 2021 White House briefing, Slavitt revealed that his teenage son Zach continued to suffer serious lingering medical effects, according the official medical narrative from an earlier bout of COVID-19. He cited symptoms including tachycardia, shortness of breath, and flu-like symptoms while urging Americans with families to jab their children aged 12 to 15 as soon as possible.

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