Cheryl Campbell, senior vice president of CGI listens at left as Andy Slavitt, representing QSSI’s parent company, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 24, 2013, before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing with contractors that built the federal government’s health care websites. The contractors responsible for building the troubled Healthcare.gov website say it was the government’s responsibility _ not theirs _ to test it and make sure it worked. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)
President Obama has waived his own ethics orders (course he has!) to appoint Andy Slavitt as chief regulator over his former health insurance employer:
Liberals and conservative have grave ethical concerns about Andy Slavitt, a former health care executive President Barack Obama nominated as his top administrator at the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Slavitt’s confirmation hearings could serve as a high-profile flash point about the revolving door that exists between the government and the healthcare industry, especially in Obamacare.
The hearings could also give Congress a peek into the close links between the Obama administration and United Health Group, Slavitt’s former employer and the nation’s largest health insurer.
The White House went out of its way to bury the Slavitt announcement, issuing an after-hours statement with his name the last of four on the nominee list.
Incompetence and failure have never been obstacles for crony capitalists to earn important jobs in the Obama Administration.
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