Showing posts with label American Medical Association. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Medical Association. Show all posts

Monday, July 29, 2013

In which "strategic advisor" Howard Dean attacks IPAB

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: