![]() ![]() But I would also urge people to think about the fact that we do have these tools, and with these tools, we are able to stay safe in many and most settings. So I would encourage us to think seriously about the fact that, yes, we have people still at risk, yes, there are risks in our community, yes when those risks get too high, they make our hospitals and our health care system work harder than they can. Those things are increasingly possible if we make use of these tools that are available to us. But maybe a Michigan game.ĪS: Or seeing your family over Thanksgiving, or the winter holidays. And so I think if there are passions in our lives, whether it's going to a Detroit Lions game, although I find that very hard to believe.ĭE: One can't really be passionate about that to be fair.ĪS: Yeah, yeah. Soon it will mean the anti-virals that are coming in the market. It means things like monoclonal antibodies. But it also means things like indoor air quality and portable filtration systems. So for a lot of people that means vaccines, it means the booster shots, it means. What principally changes is we have a better and better set of tools to manage the pandemic, keep ourselves safe and return to more and more of our pre-pandemic existence. And I think one way to look at it is, "Gee, when will we ever move on?" But, I think there's another way to look at it, which is with each cycle, we get. I know this pandemic feels a bit like Groundhog's Day to everybody. But what is your perception of the state of the pandemic? What are the key hinge points that we should be thinking about?ĪS: You're probably neck and neck with Minnesota. Just to set the stage from where we are and we can work backward, what is your perception right now about the state of the pandemic? Mind you, you're talking to an audience mainly in Michigan, where we learned as of two days ago, that we are the unfortunate pandemic capital of the country yet again. So thank you so much for joining us.Īndy Slavitt: Thanks for having me and thanks for the nice introduction.ĭE: Of course. And I've had a lot to learn, and I know that all of us have a lot to learn from both your service and your experiences. I look forward to continuing a conversation, actually, we had on my podcast. He's a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School. He's the author of Preventable, a best-selling account of the US' Coronavirus response released in 2021. 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 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 under-represented communities.ĭE: He co-chaired a national initiative on the future of healthcare at the Bipartisan Policy Center. Andy Slavitt is the outsider's insider, serving and leading private and non-profit roles, in addition to his government services. He's led many of the nation's most important health care initiatives, serving as President Obama's Head of Medicare and Medicaid Services and overseeing the turn around implementation in defense of the Affordable Care Act. He was President Biden's White House Senior Advisor for the COVID response. We've received some questions in advance from the registrants, and you can also submit questions on the Live Chat function on YouTube or tweet your questions to #PolicyTalks.ĭE: Now onto our discussion. Before we get started, a quick note about format, we'll have some time toward the end for questions from the audience. This event is part of the Towsley Foundation lecture series, and I wanna thank the Towsley Foundation for their support. And I'll say more about Andy and our topic in a moment. Shortly, we'll be discussing the state of healthcare in the United States as well as the pandemic of COVID-19 in that context. Welcome to this Policy Talk at the Ford School event with Andy Slavitt. Abdul El-Sayed, and this semester, I have the privilege of serving as a Towsley Foundation policy maker in residents of the Gerald R.
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