Fixing What's Broken | Founding General Partner of Town Hall Ventures, Andy Slavitt
In this episode, Steve Kraus interviews Andy Slavitt, General Partner at Town Hall Ventures and former CMS and UnitedHealth Group executive. We look back on his career-long mission to fix American healthcare's biggest challenges, encompassing roles in insurance, government, healthcare startups, and venture capital.
We cover:
The high-stakes mission to rescue Healthcare.gov and implement the Affordable Care Act
His unexpected transition from entrepreneur to executive at UnitedHealth Group
His tenure as the head of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)
The promise and hurdles of value-based care
Why healthcare is slow to adopt technological innovations
Navigating healthcare policy across changing political landscapes
About our guest:
Andy Slavitt was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response. He is currently a member of a 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 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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