This is dean’s way of providing a heads up to the obama admin to get plan B single payer ready to take the place of the mandate. Dean wants single payer anyway.
That's what's got me a little worried. What if they drop the mandate and just pay for Obamacare through general tax revenues? That would be jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. It'd be instant single payer. Obama wouldn't even have to wait the ten or fifteen years he was expecting.