Howard Dean now serves as senior advisor to the law firm “Dentons”, where he works with the firm’s Public Policy and Regulation practice, a euphemism for Dentons’ lobbying team. The Dentons Public Policy and Regulation practice lobbies on behalf of a variety of corporate health care interests, including the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, a powerful trade group for drug makers like Pfizer and Merck. Who else is on that lobby team? That would be Newt Gingrish. Yeah, that guy. Newt and “our guy” Howard working towards the same end. Howard was the guy at the last Massachusetts State Convention who urged me and others in attendance to back Hillary Clinton who has also come out against single payer health care.
Howard is beginning to remind me of this guy in The Matrix. Yeah, that guy. A sellout.
Know this: If you are not for Universal Single Payer or worse yet, working against it, take me off your list of people to call and canvas or phone bank. Un-Friend me. Better yet, go to your local town hall and be honest with us all and change your voter registration to Republican.
…but I have no use for litmus tests.
He joined the “death panel” crowd against the IPAB in the ACA a few years ago because he’s doing the bidding of PHrMA: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/howard-deans-misplaced-ipab-fight.
He’s also lobbied for MEK, an Iranian terrorist group.