Managed Care Mag August 5, 2019
INTERVIEW BY RICHARD MARK KIRKNER

The former head of CMS takes Congress to task. The ACA is not perfect (no law is) but could be improved, in his view, if only lawmakers would show more political courage.

In January 2017, as the Trump administration took office, Andy Slavitt cleaned out his desk as the acting director of CMS and headed into the private sector. But his post-CMS ride has been neither quiet nor off into the sunset. Slavitt, a former investment banker, formed a health care technology venture capital firm and helped launch the United States of Care, which bills itself as a nonpartisan group that advocates for affordable universal health care. Slavitt is active on Twitter and in the thick of many lively...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Insurance, Market Research, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Provider, Public Exchange, Trends
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