Did Obama NOT appoint Howard Dean to HHS to save Dean's life?

[DFW]

No, the question was not meant to be taken seriously, but check this out:

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/07/sen-gregg-force-the-poor-to-buy-health-insurance/

This Republican airhead, whose only patriotic act I know of was NOT joining Obama's government,
thinks the poor need to pay more for their health care, never mind that they're poor. He thinks that
millions of people earning $75,000 CHOOSE to have no health care because they have "other priorities."
Sen. Gregg (R-Nowhere) has to borrow Dick Cheney's excuse for not joining the military during the
Vietnam conflict.

I'm beginning to wonder if Howard Dean would have been assassinated by the insurance industry, had
he been appointed HHS Secretary. Howard's plans would have saved the American public billions, which
would have come out of the inflated bottom lines of insurance/pharmaceutical industries. Most planes
to Burlington, VT, are rather small, after all, and progressive Democrats have not always fared well
while traveling in them........

[billyoc]

1. They hate Dean, no need to look any further than that.

They being the Obama administration economic team.

[Umbral]

2. I think it more likely that Dean wouldn't be muzzled. nt

[havocmom]

3. Sounds about right

I do not see the good doctor sitting quietly when the public's health is on the auction block.