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The Al Franken Podcast

1: Andy Slavitt, Former Medicare/Medicaid Head Discusses the Pandemic

The Al Franken Podcast

The Al Franken Podcast

Government, Progressive, Politics, Senate, Liberal, Senator, Minnesota, Franken, News, Saturday Night Live, Comedy, Snl

4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

One of the earliest and most outspoken critics of Trump's mishandling of the pandemic, Slavitt reviews its tragic consequences and where we go from here.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, everybody. We got a just a great one for a change. Andy Slavitt, his third, third time on that is,

0:12.7

and every one of them. When I say great for a change, not with him. I meant our other guests,

0:18.5

let's face it, have not been.

0:22.8

No, everybody's been great.

0:27.4

But Andy especially, and he's on, it's the third one for him for a reason.

0:30.9

I don't think I've had anyone on as the sole guest twice.

0:32.8

So this is his third.

0:34.8

Let me remind you who he is.

0:36.9

Because I don't think we did this last time he was on.

0:45.7

Last time he was on, he was on to tell about what all the Democratic candidates' health care policies were, which I thought was a helpful thing.

0:48.9

And this is who Andy is.

0:49.8

This is who Andy is.

0:53.2

He's the guy who saved health care.gov.

0:55.0

Remember health care.gov? Remember health care.gov?

0:56.1

They went online.

0:57.0

It didn't work.

0:57.9

The thing crashed.

0:59.6

They just crashed miserably.

1:04.3

They were trying to fix it, and a couple weeks went by, and Andy's in Minnesota.

1:05.7

I know Andy from Minnesota.

1:07.1

He's working at United Health.

1:14.8

And he calls up, HHS, just out of the blue, calls them up and says, hey, I think you don't have a technical problem here.

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