(Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama asked the U.S. Senate toconfirm Andy Slavitt as the administrator of the Centers forMedicare & Medicaid Services.

Slavitt is already the acting administrator of CMS. He joinedthe government in 2014, after working as an executive vicepresident at UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s Optum unit, which helped fixthe main Obamacare website, healthcare.gov.

CMS oversees health programs for the elderly, disabled and poor,in addition to handling many of the efforts tied to Obama’shealth-care overhaul. Medicare covers more than 50 million elderlyand disabled Americans.

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