Why Howard Dean Hates Bernie Sanders’ Health Care Plan

[NorthCarolina]

Howard Dean MD, the one-time “insurgent” candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, has since lodged himself deep inside the sinister Washington establishment. Now an employee for a health care lobbying firm and an unabashed cheerleader for Hillary’s lusterless campaign, Dean has come out guns blazing against Bernie Sanders’ call for single-payer health care, ie Medicare for all. But should we be surprised? The answer is no, we shouldn’t be startled in the least. For starters, the former Vermont governor has a lengthy track record of opposing Medicare and has even defended Bill Clinton’s disastrous welfare reform (so has Hillary), which forced single-mothers into slave wage jobs and legions of black and Latino kids into poverty. Dean and his fellow Vermonter Bernie Sanders have little in common.

During the 1990s, Dean levied restrictions for Vermont Medicare recipients under the guise of fiscal responsibility. According to The San Francisco Chronicle and the Associated Press, Dean claimed in 1993 that: “Medicare is the best argument I know why the federal government should never be allowed to run a national health care system.” He was later quoted as saying, “I think [Medicare is] one of the worst federal programs ever.”

His statements put him squarely to the right, not just of progressives on this issue, but of the majority of Americans who favor a national health care system like Canada’s.

Link: http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/14/why-howard-dean-hates-bernie-sanders-health-care-plan/

The Democratic Party sure seems to have more than it's fair share of Progressive posers.

[The Old Lie]

1. Dean lost me a long ago.

I loved him after the scream, and hoped he'd do it again in '08. Imagine my disappointment when he decided to abandon the Democratic principles for the almighty dollar.

[Baobab]

10. Doesn't Dean realize that to preserve our crap healthcare systems PROFITABILITY US doctors and nurse

jobs will most certainly be sacrificed on the altar of trade globalization?

T{REMOVETHIS]I S A AND G[this too]ATS

Same as is likely happening with education and IT.

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. Read Howard's Dean quote on getting the vote

on pick up trucks with REBEL flags.

Double think that for a second or two.

HE'S A PIMP now for the insurance agencies.

[QC]

3. Fauxgressives. We have lots of them here.

Have you ever noticed that the more ostentatiously lefty the username and avatar, the more conservative the poster?

When you encounter someone here with a name like ViolentRevolutionaryMarxist or SmashTheBourgeoisie and a Che avatar, you can bet the farm it's a right wing troll.

[MisterP]

15. hey, the Trots mostly became the neocons--maybe they really think

putting the country in the hands of Wall Street and the war industry is the True Left against the hippie Stalinists who wanted us out of Nam

[kristopher]

4. "...more than it's fair share of Progressive posers."

Aaai, yep.

[Politicalboi]

5. On the Clinton payroll

What a shame. We was something years ago, now he's a joke.

[tk2kewl]

7. He's an oar!

[disillusioned73]

8. lol..

well played..

[pdsimdars]

9. Why he tates it? Because he now gets PAID to hate it. He's a lobbyist now.

[2banon]

11. my memory of his platform has faded.

I have no recollection of his policy positions incorporated into his campaign for president in 2004 was about.

Just passing curiosity. I don't have the time or inclination to research.

Just wonder if anyone has any memory of it?

That said, It would be good to make a footnote of this, in the event Bernie wins the nom and the General Election, Dean will be someone to monitor.

[jfern]

13. He was one of those one issue candidates his fellow Hillary supporters falsely claim Bernie is

No one would have gave a shit about Dean if he was for the Iraq war.

[BernieforPres2016]

12. I posted this on another thread, but Dean just threw his state of Vermont under the bus

Here is Dean with Tweety a couple of days ago, sticking up for Hillary's smear of Vermont as part of her smear on Bernie and guns. Even Tweety couldn't believe it. See the look on his face as Dean starts defending it just before the camera cuts to Dean.

[NorthCarolina]

14. Dean doesn't need the people of VT anymore. He has a Lobbyist job now.

He's in the money.

[JI7]

16. Counterpunch is a troll site