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DeminPennswoods

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25. In Italy, people live in multigenerational households,

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 04:40 PM

Mar 2020

there is a daily "cocktail hour", they cook and dine with friends and families every day. Although there are more mutli-general households in the US now, Americans simply do not organize our lives around daily social and leizure activities with family the way Italians do. Americans organize their lives around work, work and more work. Comparing what's happening in Italy to what might happen elsewhere is like comparing apples and oranges.

FTR, Slavitt did a 2 year stint as acting director of CMS, 3 years ago. He's not a doctor or trained in medicine. He's a business school grad, former investment banker at Goldman, consultant with McKinsey, started a healthcare/insurance company, then sold it to UnitedHealthCare and ran one of that companies divisions.

Much like Seth Abramson, Slavitt has hyperventilated over many things since he left government service.

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