Howard Dean Ally: Surgeon General Job “Not The Right Fit For Him”
The news that Sanjay Gupta has decided not to go for the gig of surgeon general has already fired up supporters of Howard Dean, who are now touting him for the post.
But a close Dean ally familiar with his thinking tells me that it’s not really a gig that would work for him. “It’s not a good fit for him,” this ally tells me.
A few months back there was a round of chatter about Dean getting tapped as surgeon general, but at the time Dean aides shot down the speculation. “Even then we didn’t think it was right for him,” the Dean ally says.
The other day, Dean told HuffPo’s Sam Stein that he was looking forward to a post-DNC role of using his grassroots operation to push for “meaningful” health care reform.
The surgeon general gig is not as policy-heavy as, say, the job of HHS secretary, which Dean wanted. “He’s happy with the work that he’s going to be doing, particularly on health care,” the Dean ally said.
This obviously could be subject to change. But that’s where Dean’s thinking is right now.
Of course, it’s unclear whether the gig would be offered to Dean in the first place. Dean supporters have loudly complained to Obama advisers about their odd stiff-arming of the former DNC chair, whose 2004 campaign and 50-state strategy arguably helped lay the groundwork for Obama’s victory.
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Hmmm. How well does Howard Dean get along with Rahm Emmanuel?
I actually think that Dean would now be better on the outside as the head of the Democracy For America organization, in continuing to push the Democratic Party further to the left in order to better represent this center-left nation.
Dean is better positioned where he is right now. And having just signed with a speaker’s bureau and as a consultant with McKenna Long & Aldridge, I doubt he’d want to give those up to take a job as Surgeon General.
The First Lady helped create a notorious program that dumped poor
patients on community hospitals, yet the national media ignored the story.
Imagine if her husband were a Republican.
HOW ABOUT MICHELLE FOR THE JOB……SHE HAS SOME EXPERIENCE!
The University of Chicago Medical Center has received a good deal of justly opprobrious press over its policy of “redirecting” low-income patients to community hospitals while reserving its own beds for well-heeled patients requiring highly profitable procedures
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