Promises, promises. Once upon a time, Barack Obama said he would put an end to monkey business as usual in Washington. “First,” he said, “we will close the revolving door that has allowed people to use their administration job as a steppingstone to further their lobbying.” Like so many of the president’s campaign pledges, this one has proved to be a fairy tale.
Andy Slavitt is the most recent man to step out of the spinning door, appointed to regulate a company he once ran. Mr. Slavitt was executive vice president of Optum/QSSI, a division of UnitedHealth Group, and last week became principal deputy administrator of the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Through its subsidiaries, UnitedHealth Group has played a critical role in designing, developing and implementing the federal Obamacare exchange. In January, Optum/QSSI got the lucrative role as “senior adviser” to the effort to fix Healthcare.govwebsite after its botched rollout last October.
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