is completely irrelevant to his public statements about the ACA?
He's already carried water for them on the ACA by endorsing a Republican proposal to get rid of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, on the editorial page of the Murdoch Street Journal.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324110404578628542498014414
That said, the law still has its flaws, and American lawmakers and citizens have both an opportunity and responsibility to fix them.
One major problem is the so-called Independent Payment Advisory Board. The IPAB is essentially a health-care rationing body. By setting doctor reimbursement rates for Medicare and determining which procedures and drugs will be covered and at what price, the IPAB will be able to stop certain treatments its members do not favor by simply setting rates to levels where no doctor or hospital will perform them.
Conservatives loved his taking up the cause of death panels:
http://conservatives4palin.com/2013/07/howard-dean-governor-palin-was-right-about-obamacares-ipab-its-essentially-a-health-care-rationing-body.html
Howard Dean: Governor Palin was right about death panels: IPAB’s "essentially a health-care rationing body"; Updated
Liberals and non-wingnuts were less impressed:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/07/howard-dean-sells-out-monday-health-care-lobbyist-smackdown-weblogging.html
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/114072/howard-dean-obamacare-payment-board-and-k-street
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/07/30/howard_dean_s_war_on_ipab_is_going_just_great_so_far.html
They won't. Today I asked Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders whether he agreed with Dean. At first he didn't understand me. "My iPad works very well," he said. (In his defense, I have a cold that's blurring my consonants today.) When I explained the op-ed, he shrugged and admitted "this is the first I'm hearing about it."
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