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The Al Franken Podcast

Andy Slavitt (Again!) But Now He’s a Big Shot!

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The Al Franken Podcast

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4.67.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Senior Advisor on the President’s Coronavirus Task Force explains it all.

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

Download the Amazon Music app today.

0:13.5

Hey everybody, I got a great one today.

0:16.4

And normally I'd add, and this time I mean it, but we got Andy Slavitt, and Andy Slavitt is always great.

0:22.7

Always great.

0:23.7

And that's why this is his sixth podcast with me, but this time, Andy is a big shot.

0:32.5

You had to be a big shot.

0:34.8

I think that's right.

0:36.6

Andy is now the senior advisor on the president's coronavirus task force.

0:42.3

Now, he's been a big shot before.

0:45.4

He was the acting administrator for Medicare and Medicaid, a trillion dollar agency

0:52.4

during the last two years of the Obama administration, a trillion dollar agency.

0:59.8

He was head of the thing.

1:01.3

If Andy had just skimmed one one thousand of their budget, he'd be a billionaire.

1:07.8

Think about that.

1:09.1

But he didn't.

1:11.6

But in the previous five times that Andy, I've had Andy on, he's been the former head of

1:20.3

CMS, like I'm a former center, so not such a big shot.

1:26.1

But if you've heard him on the podcast before, you know he's an enormously knowledgeable,

1:31.2

thoughtful, effective resource on the coronavirus.

1:35.5

And everyone of my previous podcasts with Andy has been among the rare, great ones that

1:41.8

we do.

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