Why would Howard Dean -- physician, former governor, former meteoric presidential candidate and current "strategic advisor" to healthcare clients at a lobbying firm, stick a knife in IPAB, the Independent Payment Advisory Board created by the Affordable Care Act to rein in the federal government's Medicare spending?
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published this morning, Dean first pays lip service to core aspects of the ACA before launching into a perfunctory, mail-it-in attack on IPAB: