The country was in desperate need of some good news after the yearlong pandemic.Ī few minutes after the call started, my cell phone rang from an unlisted D.C. I was three weeks into my new role as White House senior advisor for the COVID-19 response and starting my fourth Zoom call of the day. In February of 2021, I was at my desk in the Old Executive Office Building, a couple of hundred yards from the West Wing. I hope we give them what my parents gave me. She also helped create two wonderful humans, Caleb and Zachary.
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To our career civil servants, who serve this nation with honor and skill, and to every health care worker who cared for us, who held a hand, cleaned a room, and absorbed our losses.Īnd to my wife, Lana, who has taught me how to work for what matters, all while giving me true happiness.
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A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School, he and his wife have two grown sons. He chronicles what goes on inside the government and across the nation at town halls, in USA Today, and on Twitter. He co-chaired a national initiative on the future of health care at the Bipartisan Policy Center. 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. Slavitt is the “outsider’s insider”, serving in leading private and non-profit roles in addition to his government services. 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. Read moreĪNDY SLAVITT was President Biden’s White House Senior Advisor for the Covid response at the beginning of his term where he oversaw direct communication with the public on the pandemic. And, he puts forth the solutions that will prevent us from being here again, ensuring a better, stronger country for everyone. Written in the tradition of The Big Short, Preventable continues Andy Slavitt’s important work of addressing the uncomfortable realities that brought America to this place. The story that emerges is one of a country in which - despite the heroics of many - bad leadership, political and cultural fractures, and an unwillingness to sustain sacrifice light a fuse that is difficult to extinguish. With unparalleled access to the key players throughout the government on both sides of the aisle, the principal public figures, as well as the people working on the frontline involved in fighting the virus, Slavitt brings you into the room as fateful decisions are made and focuses on the people at the center of the political system, health care system, patients, and caregivers.
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Slavitt chronicles what he saw and how much could have been prevented - an unflinching investigation of the cultural, political, and economic drivers that led to unnecessary loss of life. Most recognizable and influential voices in healthcareįrom former Biden Senior Advisor Andy Slavitt, Preventable is the definitive inside account of the United States' failed response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The definitive, behind-the-scenes look at the U.S. The book could have been called, ‘Outrageous.’ The story Andy Slavitt tells is not just about Trump’s monumental failures but also about the deeper ones that started long before, with our health system, our politics, and more.” -Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal
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